Jambo means hello : Swahili alphabet book

Jambo means hello Swahili alphabet book

Muriel L. Feelings

Book - 1974

Presents a word, with English translation, for each of the twenty-four letters in the Swahili alphabet. Brief explanation of each word introduces an East African custom.

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Subjects
Swahili language > Alphabet > Juvenile literature.
Swahili language > Dictionaries, Juvenile.
Africa, Eastern > Social life and customs > Juvenile literature.
Dictionaries.
Genres
Dictionaries
Published
New York : Dial Press [1974]
Language
English
Swahili
Main Author
Muriel L. Feelings (-)
Other Authors
Tom Feelings (illustrator)
Physical Description
60 unnumbered pages (chiefly illustrations) ; 24 x 27 cm
Audience
AD750L
ISBN
9781435203969
9780803743465
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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Companion to the Feelings' radiant Moja Means One (KR, 1971), this ABC introduces Swahili terms for specifically African items and Swahili translations, with short paragraphs pointing out their African associations, for such basic words as food, friend, beauty and welcome. Tom Feelings' white robed figures go about their daily work and play in a softly glowing gray mist that gives their way of life a dreamily utopian quality in keeping with the author's intentions. (The publishers have appended a full page ""note about the art"" -- a practice we would like to see widely employed -- describing Tom Feelings' unique method employing ink, tempera, tissue paper and linseed oil.) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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