Jambo Means Hello

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Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
File:Cover of the 1974 book Jambo Means Hello Swahili Alphabet Book.jpg
AuthorMuriel Feelings
IllustratorTom Feelings
GenreChildren's picture book
PublisherDial Press
Publication date
June 3, 1974
Publication placeUnited States
Awards
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Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book is a 1974 picture book written by Muriel Feelings and illustrated by Tom Feelings. It is an abecedarium of Swahili terms for the 24 letters in the Swahili alphabet.

Jambo Means Hello won the 1974 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Book and was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 1975.

Reception

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Kirkus Reviews highlighted how "Tom Feelings' white robed figures go about their daily work and play in a softly glowing gray mist that gives their way of life a dreamily utopian quality in keeping with the author's intentions."[1]

Awards

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Awards for Jambo Means Hello
Year Award Result Ref.
1974 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Book Winner [2]
1975 Caldecott Medal Honor [3]
1982 National Book Award for Children's Books, Picture Books Finalist [4]

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