Chicken House Ltd Children of the Quicksands
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Price: £7.99
Brand: Chicken House Ltd
Description: Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize Younger Readers Prize 2022. In a remote Nigerian village, twelve-year-old Simi is desperate to uncover a family secret. City girl Simi is sent to stay with her long-lost grandmother in a remote Nigerian village. There's no TV, internet or phone. Not a single human-made sound can be heard at night, just the noise of birds and animals rustling in the dark forest outside. Her witchlike grandmother dispenses advice and herbal medicine to the village, but she's tight lipped about their family history. Something must have happened, but what? Determined to find out, Simi disobeys her grandmother and goes exploring. Caught in the sinking red quicksand of a forbidden lake, her fantastical journey begins. A richly imagined magical fantasy adventure set in West Africa by a prize-winning new voice in children's writing. Introduces readers to Yoruba myths and legends whilst showcasing the wealth of culture, traditions, adventure, fun, joy, celebrations, music, pride and love found in Nigeria. Beautifully explores themes of grief and belonging. Chicken House Ltd Children of the Quicksands - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781913322366
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781913322366
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Author: Alex Blount
Rating: 5
Review: Not only is the language of this story beautiful, whisking you away to all the colours, sights and sounds of Nigeria, but the story itself is just as ensnaring as the quicksands of the title. Simi is a fish out of water when she arrives to visit a grandmother she's never met in the rural village of Ajao. A city kid from Lagos, she's understandably dubious about the tales of magic lakes, missing children, goddesses and golden birds and even disbelieves her own strange and disturbing experience when she first arrives. But as the story unfolds, so do secrets in her family's past and the magic becomes all too real. This has all the warm familiarity of a well loved family story, at the same time as providing a feast for the senses and introducing new and lesser known myths and legends. I absolutely loved it and read until late into the night.
Author: Kayode Ejodame
Rating: 5
Review: A very warm and interesting story with an amazing dialogue between the characters. Loved it
