Suitabook
A father's lesson
Abraham Bereket, Hardido Temesgen, Yohannes Firew
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Credits & Licence
Author - Abraham Bereket, Hardido Temesgen, Yohannes Firew Illustration - Adonay Gebru Language - English Level - Longer paragraphs © African Storybook Initiative 2018 Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 Source www.africanstorybook.org Original source
author: Abraham Bereket, Hardido Temesgen, Yohannes Firew. illustrator: Adonay Gebru. source_copyright_statements: © African Storybook Initiative 2018.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; story unchanged. Suitabook’s guidance is a separate analysis.
Original Book on African Storybook: A father's lesson (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause at Abula’s complaint about reading and invite the child to compare it with their own experience. At the ending, consider what reading together might look like, while leaving the outcome open.
- Themes
- Reading and learning: Abula avoids books and school, says reading is difficult and boring, and hears his father urge him to read and attend classes before offering to read together. The book presents competing or mixed signals about this.
- Taking money and parental concern: Abula repeatedly takes his mother’s money for sweets; his parents discuss what they have noticed, and his father uses money hidden in books to prompt him to search them. The story presents the behaviour and the father’s tactic, but does not clearly show a direct discussion of the taking itself or its consequences.
- Worth knowing
- Abula takes his mother’s money for sweets, and his parents express concern about his behaviour and school attendance. These moments may be worth discussing without treating the labels applied to him as the whole story.