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Babu's Song
By Stuve-Bodeen, Stephanie & Boyd, Aaron
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-58430-058-8
- Publisher
- New York : Lee & Low Books, c2003.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2003
K-Gr 2 A warm, heartrending story set in Tanzania. Bernardi loves to play soccer and to hum a song that his grandfather taught him before the man lost his voice. Babu fashions toys out of bits of tin and scraps of wood that the boy collects and then sells them at market. Together they make enough to live on but not to pay the fees required to send Bernardi to school. One evening Babu surprises his grandson with a music box he has made that plays their...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
