Buri and the Marrow (Somali-English)

Author: Henriette Barkow
Illustrated by: Lizzie Finlay
Paperback: 24 page(s)
Age Range: 4 - 7
Ontario curriculum: Language - Reading

Book Description:

In this famous Bengali story an old woman travels through the forest to meet her daughter. On her way she meets a fox, a tiger and a lion - and they all want to eat her! Buri tells them to wait until she returns, when she-???+-?-+ll be nice and fat. When it is time to go home, her daughter thinks of a plan to outwit the tiger and the lion. But will the fox be fooled?

School Librarian
"clever and amusing...the illustrations by Lizzie Finlay are a delight, full of expression and color and with lots of talking points."

Books for Keeps
"the text and illustrations are well matched and the book would lend itself to bilingual storytelling."