It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road. "Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks. "Will they give us a pencil?" "Will I learn to read?" But when he and the other children arrive at the school yard, they find no classroom, no desks. Just a teacher. "We will build our school," she says. "This is our first lesson." James Rumford, who lived in Chad as a Peace Corps volunteer, fills these pages with the vibrant colours of Africa and the spare words of a poet to show how important learning is in a country where only a few children are able to go to school.
| ISBN: | 9780547243078 |
| Publication date: | 25th October 2010 |
| Author: | James Rumford |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 32 pages |