"I felt the tingle of kinship flowing through my veins," reports
Linda of learning about the Masai in school. During the next two
days, as she goes home to her apartment, shares dinner with her
family, goes out to play until "the streetlights turn on," and gets
ready for school and later for a party for Grandma, she compares
each activity with the way it would be if she were Masai. As
imagination might, the nicely cadenced, poetic text idealizes the
Masai experience ("I would stay out until the bats' caves echoed
with empty silence, until the low, white moon glowed yellow and
rose straight above, until whole flocks of flashing fireflies
turned trees into lanterns"); the sensitively observed art,
adroitly merging the two worlds in each scene, captures both with
robust enthusiasm. (Kirkus Reviews)
A little girl learns about the Masai tribe at school and daydreams about what her life would have been like if she had been born a Masai. Comparing her life and theirs she learns that their dignity is something that she can also acquire and that she has her own spiritual and even physical kinship with them.
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