A Good Trade
- Subject
- People & Places - Africa
- Age
- 3-5 years
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Pajama Press
- Size
- 25.1 cm × 22.6 cm
- ISBN
- 9781772781182
When an aid worker brings a life-changing gift to Kato's Ugandan village, he finds something beautiful to give her in return
In a small Ugandan village, Kato wakes early to start the long, barefoot trek beyond his village and along fields dotted with cattle and guarded by soldiers. His destination is the village well, where he will pump a day's supply of water into two jerry cans. Like every day, Kato lets the water splash over his hot tired feet before carrying his heavy load back home, where his chores await him. But this is no ordinary day. The aid worker's truck has come to the village square, and in the back is a gift so special, the little boy rushes home to look for something to repay the aid worker.
Alma Fullerton's spare, lilting prose tells a deceptively simple story of one day in a little boy’s life. But in a place ravaged by a generation of civil war and drought, a village well brings life, a gift of shoes is a cause for celebration, and a simple flower becomes an eloquent symbol of peace and gratitude.
About the creators
Alma FullertonAuthor
Alma Fullerton was first known for her award-winning free-verse novels for juvenile and young-adult readers, including the Governor General’s Award-nominated Libertad. Since then, her picture books about children around the world have also won national and international awards, including a White Ravens Choice and a Bank Street Best Book for A Good Trade, and a USBBY Outstanding International Book for When the Rain Comes. Most recently, No More Plastic! was an honor book for the Green Earth Book Award and a finalist for both the OLA Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award and the SYRCA Shining Willow Award. Alma lives in Prince Edward Island with her husband, her service dog, Gibson, and her own herd of mischievous goats.
Karen PatkauIllustrator
Author, illustrator, designer, and visual artist Karen Patkau's distinctive art can be found in more than a dozen picture books for children. She is the recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats Memorial Medal for Don't Eat Spiders, and One Watermelon Seed was a Bank Street Best Book. A Good Trade is a White Ravens Choice, a Bank Street Best Book, and a nominee for the OLA Blue Spruce Award and the Kentucky Bluegrass Award, among others. Karen lives in Toronto, Ontario
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What reviewers said
2014 OLA Blue Spruce Award finalist
2014 White Ravens selection
2015 Kentucky Blue Grass Awards shortlist
2013 Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award finalist
2014 Bank Street Best Books of the Year for Children and Young Adults selection
2013 OLA Best Bets selection
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