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Grimes, Nikki

Is It Far to Zanzibar?: Poems about Tanzania

32 pp. | Lothrop | March, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-688-13157-3 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-688-13158-1 $$15.89
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Betsy Lewin. Thirteen roughly metered, sometimes rhyming poems reflect East African life from a western perspective, although the loose, cartoony watercolors of Africans imply that Tanzanians or Kenyans are the ones speaking. Still, the portrayal of crowded buses, rainy season, and East African foods, as well as liberal sprinklings of Swahili words (most used correctly), will give readers a sense of this culture.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

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