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Amadi's Snowman: A Story of Reading
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Based on 23 Ratings and 15 Reviews

Book Description


Why does Amadi's mother insist he learn to read words when he is going to be a great businessman? Why should an Igbo man of Nigeria waste precious time on books, anyway? When Amadi disobeys his mother and runs off to the market instead of sticking around for a reading lesson, he encounters a much-admired older boy secretly reading at a book stall. Crowding himself in among the stacks of ... More
Book Information
PublisherTilbury House Publishers
BindingHardcover (4 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages32
ISBN-100884482987
ISBN-13978-0884482987
Publication Date05/01/2008
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About Katia Novet Saint-lot (Author) : Writer, translator, globe-trotting expat, and mother of two biracial girls who challenge all my views and assumptions about... life, parenting, and so much more.
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About Dimitrea Tokunbo (Illustrator) : Dimitrea Tokunbo is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. Some of the published credits of Dimitrea Tokunbo include Together, Sidwalk Chalk: Poems of the City.
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About Dimitria Tokunbo (Illustrator) : Dimitria Tokunbo is a published illustrator of children's books. A published credit of Dimitria Tokunbo is Amadi's Snowman.
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