Suitabook
Aku the Sun Maker
Aisha Nelson
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Credits & Licence
Originally published by African Storybook Initiative.
Author - Aisha Nelson Translation - Aisha Nelson Illustration - Idowu Abayomi Oluwasegun Language - English Level - Read aloud © African Storybook Initiative 2018 Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 Source www.africanstorybook.org Original source
author: Aisha Nelson. illustrator: Idowu Abayomi Oluwasegun. translation: Aisha Nelson.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; story unchanged. Suitabook’s guidance is a separate analysis.
Original Book on African Storybook: Aku the Sun Maker (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause when the sky darkens and again when the ball flies upwards. Invite your child to describe what the pictures show and how they think the town might be feeling.
- Themes
- Being excluded: Children reject Aku from their games because of her long legs, and later laugh at what she says about the sun. The story shows the hurt and loneliness that follow, but does not clearly explore why the children behave this way or how their attitudes change.
- Curiosity and imagination: Aku wonders about the sun and other things, comes to regard the sun as her friend, and believes it has not died or travelled. The story follows Aku’s conviction through a magical resolution in which her football kick sends the sun back into the sky.
- Worth knowing
- Aku is left out of games, laughed at by children and made lonely. The sun’s disappearance also leaves the town subdued and unable to carry on ordinary activities.