Cover of Mama's Sleeping Scarf

Mama's Sleeping Scarf

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Joelle Avelino

3.0
(2 ratings)
32 pages2023HarperCollins Publishers LimitedISBN 9780008550073
FictionChildren'sCooking
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About this book

<p>A joyful exploration of family life, written by one of the most outstanding contemporary authors of our generation.</p> <br> <br> <p>This beautiful family story follows a young girl called Chino as she plays with her mama's sleeping scarf through the day. Running with the scarf, Chino weaves together little incidentals of home life into a glorious celebration of the power of a mother-daughter relationship, and the gentle joys that build a perfect day. Exquisitely written with compelling simplicity, this is a heartfelt homage to family love.</p> <p>A compelling debut picture book from one of the most important voices in literature today, brought into glorious technicolour through the vibrant and contemporary illustrations of Joelle Avelino.</p>

Publication Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published
2023
Pages
32
ISBN
9780008550073
Language
en

About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year; and the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Her latest novel Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, and has received numerous accolades, including winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction; and being named one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year. --http://chimamanda.com/about-chimamanda/

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