Michelle's Reviews > Yasmin's Hammer

Audience: Primary
Genre: Cultural Fiction
Quote: Once we lived far away in a quiet house by a lazy river. I helped Abba plant rice in the paddy field. Amma wove baskets to sell at the market, and Mita played under the mango tree. Sometimes I rode our mohish in the warm river currents.
Rationale: I would consider this a true picture book in that the pictures are essential to the text. I often found myself studying the pictures in order to better understand the text. The passage above with its culturally vivid terms stood out the most as being able to stand own. The cultural terms would be great discussion points and students could create their own initial visuals of what this world of Yasmin may look like.