The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Badoe, Adwoa

Nana's Cold Days

32 pp. | Groundwood | October, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-88899-479-6 $$15.95

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Bushra Junaid. It's wintertime, and siblings Ken and Rama are trying to find a way to get their freezing-cold grandmother, who has recently arrived from Africa, out of bed. Badoe has found a humorous means of exploring serious subjects (culture shock, depression), and Junaid's inventive collage art, featuring photos of items such as tree branches and knitted garments cut and arranged to resemble the characters' articles of clothing, are remarkable.

Reviewer: Nell Beram