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Reviews of the 2010 Children’s Africana Book Awards Nominees
Nominee for Best Book for Young Children:
Pharaoh’s Boat
(Houghton Mifflin)With poetic language and striking illustrations, David Weitzman tells the story of how one of the greatest boats of ancient Egypt came to be built and built again. In the shadow of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the most skilled shipwrights in all of Egypt are building an enormous vessel that will transport Cheops, the mighty pharaoh, across the winding waterway and into a new world. But no one could have imagined just where the journey of Pharaoh’s boat would ultimately lead.
Nominee for Best Book for Older Readers:
Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book
(W.W. Norton)
Created by The Nelson Mandela Foundation and Umlando Wezithombe, this graphic novel is, as the title suggests, a visual representation of the life and times of Nelson Mandela also affectionately known by his clan name, Madiba. First released in South Africa as a series of nine separate comics, the international one-book version unfolds in beautifully drawn graphic images accompanied with narrative text.The 2010 awards will be presented on Saturday, November 6, 2010 at the National Museum of African Art Washington, DC.
Book details
- Pharaoh’s Boat by David Weitzman
Ages 4 to 8
EAN: 9780547053417
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- Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book by Nelson Mandela Foundation
Ages 8 to 12
EAN: 9780393070828
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