Rain School

- Authors
- Rumford, James
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Tags
- childrens
- ISBN
- 9780547771472
- Date
- 2010-10-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.69 MB
- Lang
- en
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 schoolyard, 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 colors 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.