My Second Picture Book!
Creating my second children’s picture book – How The Lizard Lost Its Hair (Told Like An African Folktale) has been an amazing journey. Take it from me, this book is PACKED! All the spreads are interactive. Features include:
1) Top-notch animal and bird illustrations! I worked my tail to the bone and spared nothing. Your children will be thrilled!
2) Your child has to find the wooden African hair comb hidden within the pages! Ready, set, go from page 1!
3) 12 questions for your kids to answer right at the end of the book. Watch your kid flip back and forth through the pages to convince themselves they did a good job.
4) A full spread of all the animal and bird characters for your children to write their names!
5) In my usual fashion, comes with an activity book with mazes, puzzles, crosswords, spot the difference, word builders, cryptograms, matching pairs, and several coloring pages.
Watch The Making Of The Lizard Story!
About The Book
Agoku, the dapper lizard has beautiful afro hair all the animals love to look at. He has a secret to making his hair look shiny and good all the time.
He will stop at nothing to make sure he never loses his hair. But soon enough, he runs into a problem.
Will his secret stay hidden long enough to keep his luscious hair on his head?
This book is not only fun to read but teaches important lessons about honesty, truthfullness, being content and how our actions affect others.
African Folktales
Griots, elders, and even parents told these tales during gatherings to entertain and teach valuable life lessons.
With their super fascinating and ancient origin, these stories have passed down through generations, like a precious treasure chest full of cultural wisdom and imagination.
So many diverse ethnic groups in Africa told their own unique stories, making this treasure trove of folktales a rich tapestry of cultures and beliefs.
Till this day, these magical stories continue to captivate hearts all over the world, connecting us to Africa’s incredible heritage.
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Meet The
Author & Illustrator
Author & Illustrator
Vivian Uwakwe is a gifted, self-taught artist who takes pride in her African heritage. Her children’s picture book, “How The Tortoise Broke Its Shell (An African Folktale),” secured the coveted number one Best Sellers Rank in the Children’s African Folk Tales & Myths category on Amazon; an impressive accomplishment that highlights her expertise and creativity in the realm of children’s literature.
She is on a mission to document all the stories her father, a fantastic storyteller, told her as a child. In addition, she is collecting and rewriting several African folktales in simple modern language and creating beautiful illustrations to catch the minds of young kids around the world.
Storytelling amongst several African tribes around the continent, are typically told by the village griots as well as the elderly. The young listeners pass on the torch retelling these stories from generation to generation.
Vivian is grateful that her work as an African author and illustrator offers her a unique platform to dispense her cultural duty of passing the story telling torch to younger generations.
