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I read "The baboons who went this way and that" on the plane from Uk to Greece, a collection of african folktales retold by Alexander McCall Smith. The stories are beautiful, bittersweet and funny, and the illustrations, though very simple at first glance, add a certain charm to the stories too. I am generally interested in folktales from around the world, so this collection picked up almost by chance from the library was very refreshing.
The language was simple, maybe too simple for my liking, but this is often the case with folktales, isn't it? I've seen people around here asking about books with simple english for language learners: this would be a very good choice.
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