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With full-color photographs. Now in paperback,My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Meis the enchanting story of an eight-year-old girl named Thandi, her village, her mischievous brother, her best friend--a chicken--and the remarkable mural art that is produced by the Ndebele women. With over seventy photographs of the reclusive Ndebele women and their breathtaking paintings,My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Medocuments the passing of traditions from parent to child while introducing young readers to a new culture through a new friend. "Angelou's prose, like the art, is unlike what you've seen before" (Chicago Tribune). "Poet Angelou's impish narrative and Margaret Courtney-Clarke's ravishing photos create an entrancing vision...." (Entertainment Weekly). To be published simultaneously withKofi and His Magic, a new hardcover collaborative effort by Angelou and Courtney-Clarke.  

ISBN-13

9780517704530

ISBN-10

0517704536

Weight

0.95 Pounds

Dimensions

8.50 x 0.50 x 10.75 In

List Price

$17.00

Format

Hardcover

Pages

48 pages

Publisher

Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published On

1996-11-05



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