Nadia L. Hohn

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1) Malaika's winter carnival

Author

Hohn, Nadia L

Series

Malaika

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

Description

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Nadia L. Hohn's prose, written in a blend of standard English and Caribbean patois, tells a warm story about the importance of family, especially when adjusting to a new home. Readers of the first Malaika book will want to find out what happens when she moves to Canada, and will enjoy seeing Malaika and her family once again depicted through Irene Luxbacher's colorful collage illustrations.--Provided by Publisher.

2) Malaika's surprise

Author

Hohn, Nadia L

Series

Malaika

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

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"When Malaika finds out she is going to have a new baby brother or sister, she worries that her mother will forget about her. But a surprise arrives on Malaika's birthday that gives her reason to celebrate her family's love"--Provided by publisher.

3) Harriet Tubman: freedom fighter

Author

Hohn, Nadia L

Series

I can read book
I Can Read!

Pub. Date

[2019]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the Underground Railroad conductor depicts her early life as a slave, her dedication to helping others escape from slavery, and her life after the Civil War.

4) Malaika's costume

Author

Hohn, Nadia L

Series

Malaika

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

Description

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Participating in a first Carnival since her mother left to find a better job, Malaika fears she will not be able to dance in the parade without a costume and comes up with an idea to use scrap fabric to create a patchwork rainbow peacock outfit.

5) A likkle Miss Lou: how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice

Author

Hohn, Nadia L

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

Description

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""Miss Lou" is widely credited as having helped Jamaican Patois be recognized as a "nation language." Thanks to her writing and her work in TV and radio, Jamaican Patois was embraced internationally and she created spaces for poets like Mutabaruka and Linton Kwesi Johnson and singers like Bob Marley and Harry Belafonte to centralize and popularize Jamaican English, Creole, patois in their work. This picture book manuscript focuses on a young Miss...