Don't Spill the Milk

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After carrying a bowl of milk on her head across dunes and the River Niger, and even up a mountain, without spilling a drop despite many distractions, Penda gets a surprise when she arrives at the grasslands to give her father his lunch.

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Stephen Davies is great submitted by camelsamba on August 25, 2014, 10:47pm I am a big fan of Stephen Davies' teen and middle grades books, so I decided to read this as well (even though we no longer read picture books at bedtime). As with his longer works, this is true to the culture and landscape - make sure to read the author's note at the end. A young girl delivers a bowl of milk to her father far away in the fields. Disaster strikes at the end, but her father reassures her that "there was more than milk in that bowl." Christopher Corr's illustrations are bright and colorful and child-like.