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Limpopo Lullaby
Simply Read Books
32 pages, Hardcover
First published June 6, 2006
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January 27, 2013
Based on a true event, Limpopo Lullaby written by Jane Jolly and Dee Huxley is about a natural disaster that occurred in February and March 2000 in Mozambique. This story is about survival and how one family endured heavy rain, the stinging of ants, slithering of snakes and wasps and mosquitoes bites and intense anxiety for four long, miserable days.
The main character in the story Josette a pregnant mother and her two children Leroy and Aimee who had to race to higher ground to escape the fast rising Limpopo River due to the heavy rain. Finding safety in a huge Millwood tree near their village wrapped with a blanket for security for days and during one of those days, Josette realized her unborn child is making its way into the world.
The illustrations in this book are full of color and life. As you look at the illustrations the facial expression of the main characters Leroy, Aimee and Josette present a visual story of the character joy, concerns, fear, suffering, struggles and contentment. You can even see the fear caused by the flood on the faces of the cattle in the story. There is no doubt that the illustration in this story presents to it readers just how horrifying and terrible floods can be.
I believe Limpopo Lullaby would be a great book for preschool – grade 6 students, age 3 – 11 and can be used in the classroom with older children to look up information about the actual Mozambique floods in 2000 or to find out more about Mozambique in general, such as it past and recent history, how the people live, what is special about their culture and what the countryside and wildlife are like. With younger children they can recreate the story with their own personal picture to help them better understand with are flood and the effect such flooding has on the environment.
Limpopo Lullaby won the Children’s Book Council of Australia Award (CBCA) and I really enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to others.
The main character in the story Josette a pregnant mother and her two children Leroy and Aimee who had to race to higher ground to escape the fast rising Limpopo River due to the heavy rain. Finding safety in a huge Millwood tree near their village wrapped with a blanket for security for days and during one of those days, Josette realized her unborn child is making its way into the world.
The illustrations in this book are full of color and life. As you look at the illustrations the facial expression of the main characters Leroy, Aimee and Josette present a visual story of the character joy, concerns, fear, suffering, struggles and contentment. You can even see the fear caused by the flood on the faces of the cattle in the story. There is no doubt that the illustration in this story presents to it readers just how horrifying and terrible floods can be.
I believe Limpopo Lullaby would be a great book for preschool – grade 6 students, age 3 – 11 and can be used in the classroom with older children to look up information about the actual Mozambique floods in 2000 or to find out more about Mozambique in general, such as it past and recent history, how the people live, what is special about their culture and what the countryside and wildlife are like. With younger children they can recreate the story with their own personal picture to help them better understand with are flood and the effect such flooding has on the environment.
Limpopo Lullaby won the Children’s Book Council of Australia Award (CBCA) and I really enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to others.
March 22, 2009
My grown children will identify with Leroy and Aimee for there was nothing they enjoyed more when the long Mozambican dry season ended than to play in the rain. But in this story the rain doesn't stop and the children must be rescued by helicopter. Delightful pastel illustrations with expressive faces. Based on actual events, this could be frightening or confusing to small children. I wish the author had chosen more Mozambican sounding names.
August 24, 2015
non-fiction account of an expecting mother stranded in a tree with her other small children during floods.
July 2, 2016
Wonderful pictures. Is the story true?
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