Old Mikamba Had a Farm Cover:Hardcover 2009 Silver Birch Award

2009 Silver Birch Award

The girls are thirteen when D’s mom swoops in to reclaim D—and as magically as she appeared

No matter what the cost

And when the truth comes down with the rain one stormy summer afternoon

Old Mikamba Had a Farm Cover:Hardcover 2009 Silver Birch AwardThis fabulous version of the classic nursery song Old MacDonald introduces children to a menagerie of African animals and their sounds. It is beautifully illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner Rachel Isadora, with her signature collage style artwork. Old Mikamba had a farm, E I E I O. And on this farm he had . . . a giraffe, a baboon, and an elephant! Meet Old Mikamba, who watches over a wide variety of animals on his game farm in the plains of Africa.