Trouble

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Description

Tekleh is curious. Tekleh likes adventure. And trouble at all times seems to find him, no matter how hard he tries to keep away from it. In the future Tekleh’s father makes a decision that a gebeta (sometimes called mancala) board will assist keep Tekleh occupied–and out of trouble. “Time and place will prove no barrier to kids’ identification with an inadvertent mischiefmaker.”–The Bulletin

This charming children’s story is based on a story that creator Jane Kurtz heard growing up in Ethiopia. In it, young Tekleh is at all times getting into trouble, letting the goats into the garden, kicking dust on the roasting coffee beans. So his father gives him a gift of a wooden board game, which he promises will keep Tekleh out of trouble. We follow Tekleh the next morning as he’s taking the circle of relatives’s two goats to graze, and has a series of adventures before he returns home, the same but different. Durga Berhnard’s warm, earth-toned illustrations are the very best companion to this book.


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