eBook details
- Title: Rain School
- Author : James Rumford
- Release Date : January 25, 2010
- Genre: Culture, Places & People,Books,Kids,Fiction,Social Issues,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 119158 KB
Description
It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road.
"Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks.
"Will they give us a pencil?"
"Will I learn to read?"
But when he and the other children arrive at the schoolyard, they find no classroom, no desks. Just a teacher. "We will build our school," she says. "This is our first lesson."
James Rumford, who lived in Chad as a Peace Corps volunteer, fills these pages with vibrant ink-and-pastel colors of Africa and the spare words of a poet to show how important learning is in a country where only a few children are able to go to school.