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Jambo Means Hello
  • Published: 15 July 1992
  • ISBN: 9780140546521
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 56
  • RRP: $27.99

Jambo Means Hello

Swahili Alphabet Book

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A companion to the Caldecott Honor Book Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book 

Jambo Means Hello introduces children to the Swahili alphabet with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East African culture and lifestyles through an easy-to-understand narrative and vivid illustrations.  

A Caldecott Honor Book

* “A lyrical song of Swahili life.”—School Library Journal, starred review
  • Published: 15 July 1992
  • ISBN: 9780140546521
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 56
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the authors

Tom Feelings

Tom Feelings has received numerous awards for his art in books. In 1972, he was the first African-American artist to win a Caldecott Honor, for Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book, and in 1975 he won a second Caldecott Honor for Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book, both written by Muriel Feelings. Mr. Feelings taught art at the University of South Carolina. It was during that time he published perhaps his best-known work, The Middle Passage, which won the 1996 Coretta Scott King Award. Mr. Feelings was working on finishing his last picture book, I Saw Your Face, a collaboration with the poet Kwame Dawes, not long before his death in 2003.
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