- Source: Jambo Means Hello
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book is a 1974 picture book written by Muriel Feelings and illustrated by Tom Feelings. It is an abecedarium of Swahili terms for the 24 letters in the Swahili alphabet.
Jambo Means Hello won the 1974 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Book and was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 1975.
Reception
Kirkus Reviews highlighted how "Tom Feelings' white robed figures go about their daily work and play in a softly glowing gray mist that gives their way of life a dreamily utopian quality in keeping with the author's intentions."
Awards
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Jambo Means Hello
- Jambo
- Jambo (greeting)
- Tom Feelings
- Muriel Feelings
- List of Reading Rainbow episodes
- Caldecott Medal
- Timeline of African American children's literature
- Boston Globe–Horn Book Award
- Atha Tehon
