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Malaika's costume

Participating in a first Carnival since her mother left to find a better job, Malaika fears she will not be able to dance in the parade without a costume and comes up with an idea to use scrap fabric to create a patchwork rainbow peacock outfit.

Main Author: Hohn, Nadia L. (Author)
Other Authors: Luxbacher, Irene (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Toronto ; Berkeley : Groundwood Books : House of Anansi Press, 2016.
Series: Malaika ; 1
Subjects:
Costume > Juvenile fiction.
Grandparent and child > Juvenile fiction.
Carnival > Juvenile fiction.
Mother and child > Juvenile fiction.
Caribbean Area > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
Summary: Participating in a first Carnival since her mother left to find a better job, Malaika fears she will not be able to dance in the parade without a costume and comes up with an idea to use scrap fabric to create a patchwork rainbow peacock outfit.
Physical Description: 32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Issued also in electronic format.
Awards: AmeĢricas Award honorable mention, 2017
ISBN: 9781554987542
1554987547
Author Notes: Nadia L. Hohn is a writer, musician and educator. The manuscript of Malaika's Costume , her first picture book, won the Helen Isobel Sissons Canadian Children's Story Award. She is also the author of two forthcoming non-fiction titles, Music and Media Studies , part of the Sankofa series, which won the Moonbeam Children's Book Award for Multicultural Non-Fiction. She lives in Toronto, where she teaches French, music and the arts at an alternative elementary school.

Irene Luxbacher is an artist and author living in Toronto, Canada. With more than fifteen years' experience as an illustrator, Irene has received numerous awards for her children's instructional and picture books. Some of her awards include the 2003 National Parenting Publications Gold Award, the 2004 Disney Book Award and the 2007 Ontario Library Association Award. In 2009/10 Irene made the USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, both for her illustrations in Andrew Larsen's The Imaginary Garden .

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