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Is It Far to Zanzibar?: Poems About Tanzania

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Book Description
Thirteen masterly poems by Nikki Grimes are illustrated with piquant watercolors by Betsy Lewin. From mist-and mystery-shrouded Mount Meru, to a young girl coming home to her family's relentless hospitality, to a hungry lion prowling the Serengeti Plain, to a bus crowded witth squawking chickens and curious billy goats - not to mention people - Is It Far to Zanzibar? captures the sights, sounds an... More
Book Information
PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
BindingLibrary Binding (2 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages32
ISBN-100688131581
ISBN-13978-0688131586
Publication Date03/2000
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About Nikki Grimes (Author) : Nikki Grimes is a published author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Nikki Grimes include Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope, Thanks a Million, The R... more
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About Betsy Lewin (Illustrator) : Betsy Lewin is the well-known illustrator of Duck for President; Giggle, Giggle, Quack and the Caldecott Honor-winning Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, all written by Doreen Cronin. She lives in New... more
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