African Fables
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As a young woman in the 1920s, Winifred Pearce left the safety and comfort of her home in England to follow her husband to Rhodesia, the country now known as Zimbabwe. While Winifred's husband worked on the family's farm, she raised the couple's two young children. While Winifred was in Africa, an old Rhodesian man named M'Dala shared with her a handful of fables that had been passed down by word of mouth in his village. Winifred wrote down these stories and tucked them away for decades. Today, Winifred's daughter and great-granddaughters share these stories with young and old readers alike,…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
As a young woman in the 1920s, Winifred Pearce left the safety and comfort of her home in England to follow her husband to Rhodesia, the country now known as Zimbabwe. While Winifred's husband worked on the family's farm, she raised the couple's two young children. While Winifred was in Africa, an old Rhodesian man named M'Dala shared with her a handful of fables that had been passed down by word of mouth in his village. Winifred wrote down these stories and tucked them away for decades. Today, Winifred's daughter and great-granddaughters share these stories with young and old readers alike, pairing each fable alongside beautiful and original illustrations. The underlying themes of these simple stories tackle such universal topics as love and sacrifice, greed and suspicion, sickness, and questions of our origins and survival. Appealing to children and anyone interested in Africa, this collection is a valuable addition to any family's home library.
Autorenporträt
Winifred Pearce lived in Rhodesia from 1926 to 1933 while raising two young children. She moved from England with her husband, Leslie Pearce, who worked on a family tobacco farm and at a mine in Africa after retiring from the British Royal Air Force. Winifred wrote down the fables she heard and shared her African experiences on BBC. Ida Pearce, Winifred's daughter, drew the large illustrations for the fables. After a childhood in India, Africa, and England, Ida moved to the United States and worked as an ophthalmologist. She has illustrated for the scientific journal Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science and for her book, Memory Traces: Recursive Engrams. Katherine Carr and Jacqueline Carr, Winifred's great-granddaughters, edited the fables. They have written for the Orange County Register and the Stanford Daily. Katherine is a chemistry major at Stanford University, while Jacqueline is a high school student in Irvine, California.