Kende! Kende! Kende! (Mini-Library Multilingual Edition) (Child's Play Bilingual Mini-Library) - Softcover

Cappy, Kirsten; Gentille, Yaya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1835320554 ISBN 13: 9781835320556

Publisher: Child's Play (International) Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

A multilingual story of love and learning, joy and journey Inspired by the families throughout Central Africa who are forced to leave their homes, this is an honest but hopeful own-voice narrative about displacement, migration, and finding a new home. Having fled their village as conflict approaches, Mamá, Papá, Lolie, and Nico live in a refugee camp until they are chosen for resettlement in North America. Their new city is a go, go, go of new challenges, but also a return to love and learning, joy and journey. A text woven from three languages celebrates multilingual speakers and the resilience of refugees.

About this title

About the Authors

Kirsten Cappy is the co-founder of I'm Your Neighbor Books, a US non-profit organization that places Immigrant and New Generation children's literature in homes, schools, and libraries to build an environment of welcoming and belonging.

Yaya Gentille is a former educator from the Democratic Republic of Congo who now works with children's books in the United States. 

Rahana Dariah is a London based digital illustrator. Her illustrations are inspired by her environment and personal relationships and are mainly a narrative of black and brown people, full of colour and world building.  

Edition details

• Publisher: Child's Play (International) Ltd
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1835320554
• ISBN 13: 9781835320556
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Dariah Rahana
• Number of pages: 36