The team behind Baby Goes to Market and B Is for Baby visit a
Nigerian village for a humorous ode to childhood ingenuity.
Lami is the best chicken catcher in the whole village. Her sister may be
speedy at spelling, her friend fast at braiding hair, and her brother
brave with bulls, but when it comes to chickens, nobody is faster or
braver than Lami. That is, until the day when Lami chases a little too
fast, up the baobab tree, and reaches a little too far . . . ow! How can
she catch chickens with an ankle that's puffed up like an angry lizard?
Could it be, as Nana Nadia says, that quick thinking is more important
than quick running? Award-winning author Atinuke celebrates Nigerian
village life in a story vibrantly illustrated by Angela Brooksbank with
a universal message at its heart.