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Crossing the river
African Storybook
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Credits & Licence
Originally published by African Storybook Initiative.
Author - African Storybook Illustration - Rachel Greer Language - English Level - First paragraphs © African Storybook Initiative 2019 Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 Source www.africanstorybook.org Original source
author: African Storybook. illustrator: Rachel Greer.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; story unchanged. Suitabook’s guidance is a separate analysis.
Original Book on African Storybook: Crossing the river (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause on each picture and invite the reader to describe what they notice before guessing what happens next; accept different interpretations where the images leave room.
- Themes
- A shared river journey: People and animals appear together in a boat crossing the river, with goods and a bicycle among the passengers’ belongings. The pictures bring human and animal passengers together, but do not establish what the journey represents or how readers should judge it.
- The elephant in the water: An elephant is shown in the river in one illustration, with water running from its face; later pictures show it travelling with other animals. The image may suggest sadness, but it does not establish why the elephant looks this way or what the scene means.
- Worth knowing
- The river crossing and swimming are prominent; an elephant appears in the water, looking downcast in one picture. Readers may interpret these scenes differently.