As a digital subscriber, you’ll receive unlimited access to Horn Book web exclusives and extensive archives, as well as access to our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database.
To access other site content, visit The Horn Book homepage.
To continue you need an active subscription to hbook.com.
Subscribe now to gain immediate access to everything hbook.com has to offer, as well as our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database, which contains tens of thousands of short, critical reviews of books published in the United States for young people.
Thank you for registering. To have the latest stories delivered to your inbox, select as many free newsletters as you like below.
No thanks. Return to article
32 pp.
October, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-15-200805-5$$16.00
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Ashley Bryan.
The first page of each double-page spread poses an intriguing African riddle-poem ("I have a house / that has no door"), while the facing page offers many possible answers in Bryan's exuberant sun-bright illustrations, which evoke the African landscape and its inhabitants. Children and adults will delight in solving the riddles. Source notes and answers provided.