Jane Kurtz Unisex Kids Multicolor Meet The Ethiopian Wolf: Africa's Most Endangered Carnivore In

Jane Kurtz

The most endangered carnivore in Africa is the Ethiopian wolf. It roams the Bale Mountains, where efforts are underway to protect its habitat from encroaching farmland. It is the only wolf native to Africa, where it devours mole rats and tries to avoid people as its forests slowly shrink. Illustrated with colorful collages by student artists and published with side by side text in English and indigenous languages like Amharic, Tigrinya and Afaan Oromo. Part of the Ready Set Go series of bilingual early readers by Open Hearts Big Dreams. Ready Set Go Books, an Open Hearts Big Dreams Project, is focused on increasing the literacy rate in Ethiopia through giving readers books with stories in their heart languages, full of colorful illustrations with Ethiopian settings and details. Profits from book sales are used to create, print, and distribute more Ready Set Go Books to kids in Ethiopia, Africas second most populous country. Ethiopias population is 44% children, ages 014 (43 million out of 97 million total). Only 5.5% of children attend preschool or kindergarten, and the adult literacy rate is 49%. Our books are based on wise Ethiopian sayings that often rhyme in Amharic. If an adult says the first half, many children can chant the second half. Sometimes the meaning of these sayings is clear. Sometimes it has to be puzzled out and argued over. But sayings and idioms and proverbs help people express truths and beliefs in unusual ways. Since late 2017, OHBD has published... | Jane Kurtz Meet the Ethiopian Wolf: Africa's Most Endangered Carnivore in