Jane Kurtz What is a Friend: A Pup Finds a Home in Portuguese & English

A lonely pup searches the Ethiopian countryside for a friend in our heartwarming look at the plight of a stray dog. Along the way he encounters a variety of animals and learns something about friendship. Most of Ethiopias dogs are homeless, but thats changing thanks to volunteer efforts to vaccinate and find homes for the thousands of strays in need of a friend. Side by side duallanguage text supports bilingual readers in vocabulary and conversational fluency. Playful mixedmedia collage illustrations feature East African wildlife and inhabitants. Part of the Ready, Set, Go! series of early readers in Ethiopian languages by Open Hearts Big Dreams. 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... | Jane Kurtz What is a Friend: A Pup Finds a Home in Portuguese & English