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Mama's sleeping scarf

Chino loves the scarf her mother ties around her hair at night, and takes it on endless adventures during the day as a reminder of the ones she loves.

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Main Author: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- (Author)
Other Authors: Avelino, Joelle (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
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Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
Scarves > Juvenile fiction.
Love > Juvenile fiction.
Black people > Juvenile fiction.
Blacks > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
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Summary:Chino loves the scarf her mother ties around her hair at night, and takes it on endless adventures during the day as a reminder of the ones she loves.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Audience:Ages 3-7.
Grades K-1.
ISBN:9780593535578
059353557X
Author Notes:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria on September 15, 1977. She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half before moving to the United States, where she studied communication at Drexel University for two years. She received a bachelor's degree in communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2001, a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, and a master's degree in African Studies from Yale University in 2008.

Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was published in 2003 and received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2005. Her other books include The Thing around Your Neck, Americanah, and We Should All Be Feminist. Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize in 2007. She was awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize, for her body of work that shows 'outstanding literary merit'.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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