Penda Diakité

Includes authors’ notes, glossary, song lyrics, recipe

This book is geared towards older elementary students.

This book highlights some key parts of African culture as a young girl goes to visit her family in Africa. This book also teaches about loosing a tooth and would be fun to use in a classroom to teach about loosing teeth and a little information on another culture.

This book is a good read that shares about African family traditions. It would be perfect for primary readers in that it has representations of time and an exciting ending about family history.

I think this book would be good for upper elementary schoolers. This book gives a fun look into a part of African Culture within a fun story! I think kids would be able to not only learn about a different part of the world but can relate to the part of life with losing teeth!