Tag: Realistic Fiction

Africa South of the Sahara

Ghana
Cover for Champion Runner featuring a pencil illustration of a young boy in track gear running to the right and a portrait of a boy's face with a striped t-shirt on in the background. The background is white and the title is in cursive black for the word "Champion" and in a bright red serif font for the word "Runner".

Champion Runner

Adwoa Badoe

Ashalley Mensah (Illustrator)

Champion Runner. Adwoa Badoe. Illustrated by Ashalley Mensah. Smartline Publishing and Worldreader, 2013. Published in Ghana [and the US]. ISBN 9789988600526. 17 p. (Ages 6-10). Picture book.

South Africa
Cover for Here Comes Lolo featuring an illustration of a young girl in jeans, blue sneakers, and a pink floral t-shirt with white flowers on it with a car, house and clouds in the background. The cover's background is orange and the word "Lolo" in the title is displayed in large letters with each letter featuring a different colorful pattern. There is a border of yellow graphic flourishes along the top and bottom of the cover.

Here Comes Lolo

Niki Daly

Here Comes Lolo. Niki Daly. Catalyst Press, 2020. Originally published by Otter-Barry Books, in Great Britain, in 2019. ISBN 9781946395337. 78 p. (Ages 4-9). Fiction.

Nigeria
Cover of Too Small Tola featuring an illustration of a young small girl with a colorful orange and green basket on her head with fish and produce in it. The cover's background is bright yellow and the book's title is displayed in a patterned teal and orange.

Too Small Tola

Atinuke

Onyinye Iwu (Illustrator)

Too Small Tola. Atinuke. Illustrated by Onyinye Iwu. Candlewick Press, 2021. Originally published in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries by Walker Books in 2020. ISBN 9781536211276. 96 p. (Ages 7-9). Fiction.

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