Ready Set Go Books One Big Job: An Ethiopian Teret in Portuguese & English

Ethiopians have used cattle to plow the earth for over 7,000 years, a practice that has inspired generations of terets, or wise sayings. In One Big Job we learn what happens when an imaginative young Ethiopian boy pairs an elephant and an ox on his plow. Does it work as well as he expects? Side by side text in English and languages like Amharic, Tigrinya and Afaan Oromo build fluency, while detailed and playful illustrations help emerging bilingual readers develop vocabulary. Open Hearts Big Dreams Ready Set Go (OHBDRSG) Books were created to help increase the literacy rate in Ethiopia through giving readers books with stories in their heart languages, full of colorful illustrations with Ethiopian settings and details. Profits from book sales are used to create, print, and distribute more OHBDRSG books to kids in Ethiopia, Africas second most populous country. Ethiopias population has a high percentage of children ages 014. Only a small percentage attend preschool or kindergarten, and the adult literacy rate is around 50%.Some of our books are based on wise Ethiopian sayings that often rhyme in Amharic. If an adult says the first half, many children can chant the second half. Sometimes the meaning of these sayings is clear. Sometimes it has to be puzzled out and argued over. But sayings and idioms and proverbs help people express truths and beliefs in unusual ways. Other books are based on STEAM topics, cooking, colors, counting and more. Since late 2017, OHBD has published... | Ready Set Go Books One Big Job: An Ethiopian Teret in Portuguese & English