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Room For Everyone
Room For Everyone
Room For Everyone
Room For Everyone

Room For Everyone

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A young boy on a crowded bus discovers that, after some wiggles and giggles, there’s room for everyone in this lighthearted rhyming picture book set in Zanzibar.

The dala dala rumbles and roars as Musa and Dada drive off to the shore—but the bus stops for multiple detours: “Do you need a ride? It’s hotter than peppers out there in the sun! Come in, there’s room for everyone!”

One stop becomes two stops which soon becomes ten, and Musa wonders when it will end: “How can any more people get in? We’re already smushed like sardines in a tin!” But there's always room for one more, if you make the room, which is the heartwarming take-away from this bouncy, joyous tale in rhyme.

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There’s a lot of fun to be had as lyrical rhymes and mixed-media illustrations make the growing menagerie of passengers feel both vibrantly stylized and realistically depicted. East Africa is presented richly and distinctly in López’s dynamic artwork, but the overall experience of riding and building community on the daladala is not only accessible, but easily familiar to much of the world in this charming story.

Khan and López take readers on a uniquely East African journey toward a global sense of compassion and inclusion.  -- Kirkus Reviews, STARRED ―September 1, 2021

  • Written By: Naaz Khan
  • Illustrations By: Merce Lopez
  • Hardcover
  • Pages: 40
  • Age: 4-8 
  • Grade : pre-K-3
  • Publisher: Atheneum
  • ISBN 13: 978-1534431393
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