Aotearoa: World of Children's Books

  Our beautiful darkness. Written by Ondjaki. Illustrated by António Jorge Gonçalves. Translated from the Portuguese by Lyn Miller-L...

  I'll see you in Ijebu. Written by Bunmi Emenanjo. Illustrated by Diana Ejaita. Barefoot Books, 2024. Picture book. A Catho...

Baby books Written by Atinuke , illustrated by Angela Brooksbank . Walker Books UK, 2025. There are four books featuring Baby and thei...

This is a bit (a lot!) of an amalgamation of things, someone of a 'I want to include this, but where does it fit?' method of categor...

A book from Africa: The kaya girl. By Mamle Wolo.  Little, Brown and Company, 2022.  If you want to travel to another culture - to experien...

Bingo: YA fiction from a country where English isn't the main language This book betrays my brother  By Kagiso Lesego Molope

Bingo: A book from Africa: B is for baby By Atinuke and Angela Brooksbank.

Bingo: A book written in English from a country where English isn't the main language: Swimming on the lawn  by Yasmin Hamid. This was a...

ZAMBIA:  Rise of the lioness: restoring a habitat and its pride on the Liuwa Plains.  By Bradley Hague.  In western Zambia, the vibrant worl...

TANZANIA:  Lala salama: a Tanzanian lullaby.  By Patricia MacLachlan; illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon.  A mother relates the events of a peac...

SUDAN:  Brothers in hope: the story of the lost boys of Sudan.  By Mary Williams; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.  Eight-year-old Garang...

SOUTH AFRICA:  Books and bricks: how a school rebuilt the community.  By Sindiwe Magona, in collaboration with Ellen Mayer; with an afterwor...

SOMALIA:  Muktar and the camels.  By Janet Graber; illustrated by Scott Mack.  Muktar, an 11-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, ...

SIERRA LEONE:  Ballerina dreams: a true story.  By Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince; pictures by Ella Okstad.  At the age of three, Mic...

NIGERIA:  Baby goes to market.  By Atinuke & Angela Brooksbank.  When Baby and Mama go to market, baby is so adorable that the banana se...

NAMIBIA:  A baby elephant in the wild.  By Caitlin O'Connell; photographs by Caitlin O'Connell & Timothy Rodwell.  With in-the-f...

MOROCCO:  Mirror.  By Jeannie Baker.  Two diverse cultures, countries and families are linked with warmth and charm in this two-in-one pictu...

MALAWI:  The boy who harnessed the wind.  By William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer; pictures by Elizabeth Zunon.  When 14-year-old William Kamk...

LIBERIA:  Mrs. Chicken and the hungry crocodile.  By Won-Ldy Paye & Margaret H. Lippert; illustrated by Julie Paschkis.  When a crocodil...

KENYA:  Wangari Maathai: the woman who planted millions of trees.  By Franck Prévot; illustrated by Aurélia Fronty.  Wangari Maathai receive...