By Onyinye Iwu (author)
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Kamsi and Kwame are best friends and their favourite food is jollof rice!
Kamsi thinks his mum's is best, with spicy peppers. Kwame is sure his mum's is better, with juicy tomatoes. The boys decide they will each make their own jollof in their mud kitchen, to see whose is best of all…. But when they start playing tricks, secretly adding some very odd ingredients - a caterpillar, nettles and ants - to each other's dishes, both boys find they have made the WORST jollof ever! What can they do?
Maybe the BEST jollof rice is made when you do it together… A funny and heart-warming read-aloud story about sharing and the joy of cooking together!
'This story is fun, vibrant and absolutely BURSTING with flavour! A brilliant debut from a bright and shining talent in the kidlit world, Onyinye has all the ingredients to tell a good story, and you're going to totally love what she's cooked up with this one.' Dapo Adeola
Onyinye Iwu is a children’s book illustrator, designer and lecturer. In her work, Onyinye focuses on the representation of people of African and Caribbean background. She is the illustrator of Walker's Too Small Tola series by Atinuke. Her debut picture book as an author-illustrator is called African Queens .
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Kamsi and Kwame are best friends and their favourite food is jollof rice! Kamsi thinks his mum's is best, with spicy peppers.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Best Jollof Rice Ever! and determined it is suitable for children aged 3-4 years old
The Best Jollof Rice Ever! features in the following genres: Featured Books for 3+ readers, Recommendations, Stories about Family and Friends, Cooking / Food, Picture storybooks, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Practical interests, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s picture books, Children’s: picture books, activity books, early learning concepts, Shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Award
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The Best Jollof Rice Ever! was written by Onyinye Iwu and published by Otter-Barry Books an imprint of Otter-Barry Books Limited
The Best Jollof Rice Ever! has 32 pages
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