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Stock, Catherine

Gugu's House

32 pp. | Clarion | January, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-618-00389-4 $$14.00
(3) K-3 Illustrated in watercolors, this charming story relates an African city-girl's visit to a bush village. Readers get a look at subsistence farming in a dry country and get to hear a snippet of a folktale. Most fascinating is the girl's grandmother (based on a real person), who sculpts mud animals and paints her house with available pigments, turning the village into a huge folk-art exhibit until the rains come to renew the canvas. Glos.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

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