Together for Kwanzaa

Paperback

Published 2000 by Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-375-80329-1
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OCLC Number:
42462666

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5 stars (1 review)

While celebrating Kwanzaa and its many traditions with her parents, Kayla hopes that her big brother Khari will get home from college before the holiday is over.

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Review of 'Together for Kwanzaa' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

(German below.) 

 

The drawings are all very nice and look like they’ve been drawn with coloring pencils, alas, hand-drawn on paper, which definitely is more work than drawing digitally. Wonderful. 

I especially loved the mandalas and patterns in the background or as a frame, which remind me of rug art. 

 

I loved the detail in the background of the first page, where you can see a calendar with the marked days. That way you can easily see when the holiday is celebrated! 

 

There are a few words and sentences in Swahili, and I liked that they wrote the pronunciation in brackets right behind the word/sentence and a translation as well. 

At the end, there’s an index anyway though, which is good too. 

 

I did learn quite a lot. For example, it’s interesting that corn is symbolic for children in a family. Why corn specifically? Will research …