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| Beautiful illustrations and fluent text break the reader out of their own shoes, and into the role of a barefoot Kenyan child. A peak into the life of one little boy, who is a curious about the world as they are. |
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| Kelly's workshops are high energy and students really felt the soul of East Africa through artifacts, fabrics, and objects made from local wood. Kelly uses drama and free writing as a scaffold into exploring thinking around cultures. |
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| After the Kelly Cunnane author visit, Island Readers & Writers and The Catherine Johnson Fund, purchased a copy of The White Giraffe for each 4th and 5th grader to read over the summer. Island Readers & Writers / Friends Over Books, provided some discussion questions too. Our hope was to provide a cultural transaction with text, sparking an interest in knowing more. |
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