Reading Rainbow Books: Las Bellas Hijas de Mufaro: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (Spanish Edition) a Caldecott Award Winner (Paperback)

from mom2lnb

As a new grandmother, I've been searching for more diverse children's books to add to my library, and I ran across Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters at the library sale a while back. I bought it and I'm so glad I did. It's a lovely Cinderella-esque story of a man named Mufaro who lives in an African v...

from asweet2

Both of Mufaro's daughters are beautiful but Manyara is bad tempered and Nyasha is kind. When the king of the land asks the daughters to appear before him so he can choose a queen,Manyara decides to set out in the night so she can get there first. As Manyara heads to the city she has many opportu...

from ashpoe

1.) Nyasha and Manyara are the daughters of Mufaro, where one is sweet, caring, and considerate and the other is self centered, selfish, and very spoiled. The king is to pick his wife from the beautiful daughters of the land and the two sisters ,she their way to see which is chosen because he can...

from spartyliblover

Manyara and Nyasha are the two beautiful daughters of Mufaro, the sisters are very different in how they treat others and when the King calls for the most worthy and beautiful girls of the land to choose one to be his wife, the sisters differences are what matter. The two sisters and their father...

from AbigailAdams26

Inspired by a story in George McCall Theal's 1895 collection, Kaffir Folk Tales (apologies everyone, I did not name the book), John Steptoe's 1987 picture-book, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, was awarded a Caldecott Honor (as well as being chosen as a Reading Rainbow selection), and it is not diff...