Isaro and Juru's Big Trip to Accra
A children's board book set in Accra, Ghana · Ages 3 to 10
This time the siblings are going to their father's country, and they are coming home with new names.
Accra is loud, hot and full of colour, and Isaro and Juru walk straight into it. They get lost in Makola Market among the fabric and the fruit and the women who run the place. At a family party they are given Ghanaian Ewe day-names, chosen by the day of the week they were born, and the whole room says the names back to them. They try food they have never tasted. They build sandcastles and watch the sun go down over the water.
Two children, two homelands. Book one was their mother's Rwanda. This is their father's Ghana, and it belongs to them just as much.
Your child will meet: a Ghanaian naming ceremony, Makola Market, Ewe day-names, Ghanaian food, and a family that spans two continents.
Good for: bedtime, classrooms and libraries, Ghanaian and cross-cultural families, and children working out that you can belong to more than one place.
The details
| Reading age | 3 to 10 |
| Read-aloud time | About 6 minutes |
| Format | Board book, matte finish |
| Size | 24 x 20 cm (9.45 x 7.87 in) |
| Pages | 10 |
| ISBN-13 | 9789997799012 |
| Publisher | Imagine We Rwanda |
| Illustrator | Reuben Niyonkuru |
| Language | English |
| Price | $19.99 USD / $21.99 CAD |
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Every book is a passport. Ghana in Big Trip to Accra, Rwanda in Auntie Zuba's Magical Wedding, and more countries to come.