Jambo Means Hello

• Title: Jambo Means Hello
• Author: Muriel Feelings
• Illustrator: Tom Feelings
• Publisher: Puffin Pied Piper
• Publication year: 1974
• Brief Summary: From Penguin Random House-“introduces children to the Swahili alphabet with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East African culture and lifestyles through an easy-to-understand narrative and vivid illustrations.”
• Ideas for using this book in classroom or library –Much like Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions, this is another book that can be used both historically (by showing the language of certain part of Africa) and culturally.
• Whatever additional notes you’d like to add about this book and why you liked or didn’t like it –Muriel Feelings also includes a little blurb about the nature of the book, and includes a map. While it doesn’t specify how Feelings received her information or any references, it does give a little bit more explanation than say in the early Native American picture books I have covered.