December+17

1.    Verna Aardema retold an African story that explained the activities of a small very annoying insect. This book also won a Caldecott Medal in 1976. What is the title of this book? (//Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears//)

2.    This book, set in South Africa, is about Vusi, an 11-year-old Zulu boy. Vusi finds a puppy in the bush and names him Gillette because of its razor sharp teeth. He also becomes friends with Shirley, a white girl. However, Shirley’s dad disapproves of the friendship and threatens to send her away to boarding school. This book was written by Anton Ferreira. What is the title of this book? (//Zulu Dog//)

3.    In the book Boundless Grace, Grace travels to Africa to visit with her father and his new family. Who is the author? (//Mary Hoffman//)

4.    This South African author and illustrator is well-known for his book __Not So fast Songololo__//,// which is about an African boy called Malusi who gets some new shoes. He also wrote __Happy Birthday, Jamela__, __Where’s Jamela__?, and __Once Upon a Time__. What is the name of this author? (//Niki Daly//)

5.  ‘Dolphin Song’ is the second book in an African Adventure series by Lauren St John. The heroine, Martine, has a special animal friend. Who or what is the friend? //(A white giraffe)//

6.  ‘The Old African’ by Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney describes life for Africans during the time of slavery. Name one of the Old African’s gifts. //(see the color of a person’s soul, read a persons thoughts, ease or cause pain)//

7.  In ‘The Year that Gypsies Came’ how many people were in the family of wanderers that Emily’s parents invited to say in their house? //(Four)//

8.  A novel about Africa describes life on that continent 2,000 years ago. Between each chapter are ‘Old Tales’ that the people of that time made up to explain things to themselves. What is the name of the tribe? It is also the name of the book by Peter Dickinson. //(The Kin)//

9.  Sometimes films are made into books. This is what happened to this popular Disney film about a young predator called Simba who has to fight his evil uncle. What is the title of the film and the book? (The Lion King)

10.  This book is about a boy called Jimmy Hreljac who helped raise money to construct a well in Agweo, Uganda. Jimmy visited ISB two years ago. What is the title of this book? __ ( Ryan and Jimmy: And the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together____ .) __ 11.  ‘In The Power of One’ by Bruce Courtney, Peekay takes up a sport and excels at it. What is this sport? //(Boxing)//

12.  Alem, in ‘Refugee Boy’ by Benjamin Zephaniah becomes a refugee and goes to England. Which country is he originally from? //(Eritrea)//

13.  This book was written in the 1920s and is a children’s classic. It describes a doctor who talks to animals. This book was also made into a movie in 1998 starring Eddie Murphy. What is the title of the book and the author? //(The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting)//

14.  ‘Escape Across the Wild Sea’ by Katherine Kirkpatrick describes the travels of a nine-year-old boy in the 17th century who has to leave his home country of France when soldiers come and destroy his family’s shop and threaten to kill his father. He is injured but still leaves on a journey that takes him to African and the Caribbean on a slave ship and ends up finally in the colony of New York. What is the name of the boy? //(Daniel Bonnet)//

15.  ‘Jungle Drums’ by Graeme Base is a children’s story about Nigri Mdogo, who is the smallest of his kind of animal in Africa. All the other animals tease him about his size and the book is about how he wishes that things could be different. What kind of animal is he? //(A warthog)//

16.    In the book __Dr. De Soto Goes to Africa__, a mouse dentist is called to Africa to attend to an elephant’s sore tooth. Who is the author of this book? (//William Steig//)

17.    This book by Paula Fox tell the story of a thirteen-year-old boy who discovers that he is on a slaver and that his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.Title, please (//The Slave Dancer//)

18.   Who wrote Journey to Johannesburg? (//Beverly Naidoo//)

19.   In this book by Roland Smith, Jacob travels to Africa in search of his father. What is the title of this book? (//Thunder Cave//)

20.  This book by Athol Fugard is set in Soweto, a township of Johannesburg. It traces six days in the life of a ruthless young gang leader. This book was also made into a movie. (//Tsotsi//)