Chronicle Books Tales of East Africa

Stories from Africa are underrepresented, so this was a nice find. The book itself is of great quality and the illustrations are beautiful. The writing is worded a little oddly; like someone recalling the stories from memory, so details get left out or muddled. I wish they had also included something to explain the cultural background/reasoning for actions that would seem strange to a western audience - like the boy who murder-suicides his family because a N'jenge was slain. The book never even explains what a N'jenge is. From the art and stories I gather it is a mythological animal, possibly ape-like, but even online I can find precious little about this creature.

Really nice book, great purchase!!

The book is great quality. The illustrations are great. Overall it looks great, but the stories and how they are written makes this book hard to follow. I had to stop reading. It felt like a 5 year old wrote it. I do not recommend.