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The Ties That Bind

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“The Ties that Bind: Poems from a Father’s Heart to His Son” is a touching and heartfelt collection of poetry that captures the special bond between a father and his son. From the joys of fatherhood to the challenges of navigating life, these poems explore the many facets of this unique relationship. The author shares his hopes, fears, and dreams for his son while offering advice and wisdom to guide him on his journey. This book is a beautiful tribute to the enduring love and connection between a father and his child. The anthology is sure to resonate with readers of all ages.

The Me In We by Patrick Lavince

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This classic masterpiece, a collection of poetry, explores the deep recesses of a Poet's soul, birthed from the dying embers of the journey within. The anthology, a four-faceted themed book on Healing, Self-Worth, Discernment & Rebirth, takes a reader on a voyage of a lifetime — through the waded waters of loss, canopy of grace, silent storms of renaissance, tides of hope, regimen of seraphic and divine nourishment and ripples of blues — all in their truest test.

A Strange Twist and Other Stories

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When Kangi joins a new school, he has no idea of the roller-coaster ride that awaits him. This chapter is riddled with experiences that are new and exciting. How will Kangi navigate culture shock, travelling, differences in beliefs, celebrations, responsibilities, hospital runs and even teeth decays? Is there a way to find solutions to these ever-developing situations? Let us join Kangi in his adventures and see where it all takes us! In this collection, the author has interwoven the core competencies of the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC) into the stories to create circumstances that not only inform but educate on recurrent themes and topics in the curriculum and society. This is a fun way for the learner to engage and enjoy learning. What Others Say “I loved how the children’s issues were well intertwined with fun and exciting stories. It is an easy read for pre-teens and younger children. My daughter carries her copy with her every day.” - Hellen Wakonyo, Parent. “This will supplement teaching a lot of environmental, science and creative content in my class. It is refreshing to see a writer who delves into the societal contemporary issues surrounding our children.” - Teacher Rukia, Thindigua Junior Secondary School.

Fireman Sam Story Collection

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An exciting series of books starring your favourite characters!

Poetry for kids

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Describe, explore, and explain early learning through poetry and stories told with rhythm.

Mad about…Ladybird Series

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The Mad about...Ladybird series is packed with fascinating facts and information for all children.

The Pearl and Other Poems

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The Pearl and other Poems is a collection of 41 poems of different forms, styles and themes; themes that touch on varying aspects of life like love, marriage, politics, farming, education, business, leadership, religion, and anxiety, among others. What Other’s Say The poems in this collection are really enticing and evoke real emotions leaving me yearning for more. The content and titles have no match. Echesa’s creativity is just out of this world - Elizabeth Namarome Mukenya. I just can’t argue with the message in the poem “Dancing in the room”, indeed people don’t get tired of doing things they love. I love the poems in this collection, and keep coming back to them - Silas Khasao Wandera.

Deborah and the Chicken

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What Other’s Say “Deborah and the Chicken, has indeed depicted the manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. May we watch and pray as we hold to His eternal promises.” Belly Julians Orondo, a publicist.

Crossing the Border

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The collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9th,1989 marked the beginning of multi-party politics in many parts of the Third World. The same also held true for African countries. The political landscape changed. In Kenya, the early 1990s were years of ethnic cleansing through arson, land clashes, evictions, forcible displacement, and murder of members of communities then perceived to be sympathetic to the opposition. What happened to those years’ children continues to live in the collective memory of today’s adult Kenyans. Crossing the Border is a novella which captures that moment in Kenya’s history. It fictionalises the experiences of a schoolboy in a tiny village called Odiya, situated at the border between Kenya’s Nyanza and Rift Valley provinces, near the small town of Songhor, in early 1992. Not only does the story record the sadness of those years, it also focuses on proper education as an important agent for national awareness, human compassion, and communal reconciliation especially in the case of children and young citizens. The book is dedicated to all child victims of political violence anywhere in the world, but more so in Africa, where similar evils are still regularly planned and executed by governments in power. What Others Say “Abenea Ndago explored and revealed a uniquely Kenyan territory in his earlier novel, Voices. ‘Crossing the Border’, an equally refreshing read makes western Kenya’s past ethnic strife uniquely his own. This is the work of a master who trod the very hills, rivers, streams, sugarcane plantations and tribal idiosyncrasies of his characters and painfully evokes and retells the tribal spirits of postcolonial Kenya. Though written, the narrative is a griot’s account of inter- ethnic history of the Luo and their neighbours, the Kalenjin and the kisiis, and the inevitable competing tribal consciousness .The politically instigated tribal wars of the 1990s in Kenya is immortalized in this postcolonial Kenyan narrative by a relatively young novelist”. - Mahat Hassan, Kenyan Literary Critic.

The Dreamer

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Imali Abala’s The Dreamer is a book-length poem; a poetic novella, an unrelenting meditation upon the abuse of women that centres upon the unfortunate path of the dreamer. En route, the links between madness and dreams are explored, a mythical explanation for inheritable insanities, the devastating impacts of culture change and social fragmentation, and the breathlessness of having a tight fist of possibilities and a palette of advisors who all turn the dreamer away, or inward, with no path found for her self-expressive flourishing in the world. What Others Say Touching upon historic and contemporary challenges, this work calls upon all who are in contact with girls and women, in any capacity, to open the world and make room, to clear a space for upcoming generations, on a path strewn with good guidance and marked by the freedom to explore, to walk along a path made solid with life-affirmations.” - Joanne Arnott, Canada, author of A Night for the Lady, Mother Time, Wiles of Girlhood, and Breasting the Waves: On Writing & Healing. “Imali Abala’s The Dreamer is a must read for those seeking to understand female condition in post-colonial Africa. … What stands out in this story is that women have choices in redefining and repackaging their image in a male dominated world.” - Iddah Aoko Otieno, Editor of East African Anthology of Short Stories.

Moody Mood and Courage the Friend

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This is a beautiful story about true friendship. Moody Mood and Gloomy Courage are good friends. But there is just one tiny problem—Gloomy Courage is always very sad. To brighten his friend’s mood, Moody Mood will stop at nothing! Will he succeed or fail in making his friend happy again?

Moody Mood and Jumbo the bully

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Moody Mood has done it again! Happy to be back in school after the holidays, Moody Mood runs into an unsettling scene when he sees Jumba, the bully, threatening a smaller boy. Moody Mood springs into action in the boy’s defense. Without the physical might of Jumba, would Moody’s courage under fire save the day?

Mother Rat and Her Son Chepsoo

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This children’s book teaches about the importance of good behavior and manner among children. It teaches them among other things to respect their parents and elders. Dorothy Jebet has more than 18 years’ experience in the Kenyan journalism scene. She has worked for various media houses including the Nation Media Group, The Standard, the defunct Kenya Times, The Star and Kass FM in various capacities. She is currently an independent consultant and analyst on matters of journalism and media. She has had extensive training in the world of journalism, including a stint on US Congressional Reporting under the Bill Clinton Administration. Dorothy’s work is extensive, some of which has attracted international attention. Her story on the early marriage of a 16 year-old girl won her a Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) sponsorship to study Human Rights and Administration at Lund University.

Kally the Pet

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Kally the Pet is a story of a girl and her pet. Babby shows her devotion to her pet, Kally. She feeds, bathes, and plays with her. It hurts Babby to see Kally hurt and she learns to thank those who offer care for her pet Kally the Pet is about caring, discipline and responsibility. It is a story about caring and lessons on being grateful.

Kim Says Sorry

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Kim Says Sorry is a children story about learning how to apologise to adults and other children. The story also teaches us about the golden words for children to use like Please, Sorry, Thank you and Excuse me.

Ann and the Pen

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Ann and the Pen is a children story about learning to share and helping others. The story also teaches us about the golden words for children to use like Please, Sorry, Thank you and Excuse me.

Tessy and the Mango Tree

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Tessy and the Mango Tree is a children story about learning to share and playing with other children. The story also teaches us about the golden words for children to use like Please, Sorry, Thank you and Excuse me.

Chokora: A Kenyan Scavenger

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John Patrick and Martin Joseph are two teens born in the dusty, poor neighbourhood of Huruma in Nairobi. Raised by single unemployed mothers, they turn to scavenging for valuables in the city’s middle-class neighbourhoods to survive the harsh life of Huruma. City residents have labeled them Chokora, a derogatory term to describe human scavengers. And they use this effectively. For them, the Chokora façade is a camouflage as the two youths go about their exploits, including stealing from unsuspecting residents. As fate would have it, the duo ends up in a police cell to face the full reality of their escapades. Chokora! A Kenyan Scavenger is a poetic narration of the reasons most of the urban youth turn to crime. There is a lot of attention paid to the protection of the girl-child in Kenya, while neglecting the boy child. John and Martin have never known their biological fathers and are forced to adopt their mothers’ names instead. From the perspective of many, unconventional naming is an embarrassment amidst the cruel surroundings.

SONGS OF MY DREAMS AND OTHER SONGS, A...

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In today’s world, music, art, drama, and poetry are among the most scintillating experiences which appeal to and snatch the attention of our emotions, feelings, thoughts, and decisions. Of them all, however, poetry calls louder and seeks to, in itself, encompassing all the other three. In his wisdom, the renowned poet Percy Shelley said, “Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world.” Listening to a poem is an exhilarating dive into music, art, drama, and poetry, all at once. The very writing of a poem is a psychologically expensive and expansive exposure of the audience to realities and imaginations of the past, present, and future, the seen and the unseen, the sweet and the bitter, the true and the untrue, the possible and the impossible, the traditional and the modern, all in a beautifully-crafted presentation. Its recitation is a charming plunge into the world unknown. Song of my Dreams & Other Songs, a brand-new anthology of St. Andrews Creative Writers and Book Club, is a collection of handpicked poetic works by students of St. Andrews Tarabete Secondary School, Kenya. It’s an exquisite epitome of young minds’ ability to think, craft, innovate, and present ideas with ease and complexity, mindfulness and creativity. Within its pages are splashes of a handful of poems by the chaperon teachers, whose work in producing this book was offering insights, changing perspectives, aligning approaches, and instilling gusto into the young creatives’ minds, bringing out the poems and poets in them. The quadri-sectioned anthology treats the reader to an entire assortment of poems in section A, offers poetry notes in section B, a Question and Answer segment in Section C, and poems with questions in section D. In my view, the Song of my Dreams & Other Songs anthology is an Encyclopedia of Poetry in a microcosm. It’s a collection you’ll sit down to read and rise having become a poet, overflowing with the craving to write. It opens with dreams: of self, peace, and a flashback of a once-accommodative nature turned punitive by humanity and then turns to songs about life, nature, joy, sadness, culture, beliefs, and other aspects of life. With the care of nature vanishing every day, we have remained with a skeleton of the same, and now the persona dream in despair, singing in disparity: Oh! Mother Nature how cruel! How cruel to you we became? To strip your chest bare That to which your anger escalated. The dreams are agonizing of a lost reality, a longing for a lofty imagination, a craving for peace, fulfillment, a world of abundance, justice, protection, and thriving. Copies of the anthology. PHOTO/Courtesy. Copies of the anthology. PHOTO/Courtesy. The persona, through the dreams, presents the reader with a heart of resilience and the desire to keep trying and also take a different path for a different, hopefully, better result. They also build a sense of hope for life yonder after struggles, failures, pain, despair, and all negative energy, building up a new worldview of possibilities. In a narrative poem on “Personal Dream” by Teresia Muthoni, the persona narrates about a childhood life and how, all along, has been pursuing a dream hitherto. It brings out the need to focus on one’s dreams and resist the urge to be dissolved in the dreams and wishes of the community around them. Decisiveness is key! While addressing ecological matters such as climate change and the palpable need to care for the planet, which has mothered us, the poetic voices also plunge the reader into paramount contemporary issues like allocation of duties in the family setting, politics, corruption, technology, and crime, and how they have given the world new wings to fly to an unknown destiny. This anthology speaks to all ears, all genders, and all ages, attending to the issues affecting and disturbing society in entirety. Employing imagery, the young minds breathe life into their characters and give their personas the currency to pass the intended message in an easy-to-identify-with approach, adding to their creativity’s aesthetic value, usability, and applicability. The “Song of the Greedy Hyena” by Bonface Otieno stresses the need for hard work, despising a parasitic attitude of waiting to benefit from others’ efforts. It encourages a spirit of self-sufficiency, living within one’s standards, and embracing fairness. The collection unearths the aesthetic value of reading and learning from young people’s thoughts, approaches, and creativity, a pure mystery, winning over the reader to appreciate that younghood is a treasure that society must bank on, nurture, and buoy up. It also presents life in its multifaceted nature, foregrounding the themes of true love, romance and heartbreak, acceptance and rejection, hope and despair, life and death, creation and nature, parenting, academics and politics, beauty and ugliness, friendship and enmity, among many others, all in enchanting spasms. Poems like “Hopeful in Love”, “Camouflaged”, “If I Should Die”, “Toxic Trust”, “My Life”, “When I met You”, “Dark Africa”, “I Keep Wondering”, “Sweet Mother” and “Rest in Peace Old Granma”, among numerous others, speak to the reader of mundane daily life issues affecting the society, nation, continent and the whole world, opening the readers’ eyes to a wider worldview from the persona’s tongue. Diana Agnes’s “Mary’s Plea” is a plea for freedom, a cry to be let alone and be herself. It’s a wake-up call that though we always get tempted to invade others’ space and privacy, we must allow those around us the freedom to be, talk, act, and live them. Calling to mind that this book homes the thoughts of young students, the poets, and poetesses were keen also to praise their current home away from home. With ecstasy and a sense of anticipated nostalgia, “Our Saint St. Andrews” appreciates the molding, imparting, and equipping the institution does to them, forever shaping their future for good. Many cries have been absorbed By your silent walls Yet I know because I met you My life will not be quite The same again! Presenting loyalty as a gem to be embraced and other virtues as bulbs to always be kept light, the poems also hide not reality from us but surface vices as always lurking around us, ever ready to disrupt all goodness. Simultaneously, “Education” by Halsey Nganga praises the power of education in changing lives through time management and focus and how within it is the power to become anything in life. So, If it suits you Shape our ears to hear Sharpen our eyes to see Grace our minds to absorb Bless our hearts to exceed. Song of my Dreams & Other Songs book presents the young creatives’ thoughts with unbridled enthusiasm and well-calculated seasons, carrying the readers from past experiences to the present yet driving their thoughts to the future and leaving them held in anticipation. Through lyric poetry, the creatives express their feelings on different aspects of life, such as love, loneliness, disappointments, fear, and other feelings, riveting the reader all along. The young minds have tapped on figurative language and employed tons of enjambment, making the poems interestingly complex yet easy to decode, affording an amazing flow of thoughts, and maintaining splashes of tension to keep your eyes open, searching for more. Mr. Bonface Otieno (L), Ms. Ruth Gitonga, Kabarak University staff members, and St. Andrews Tarabete Creative Writers and Book Club members after an inspiring creative writing workshop at Kabarak University last year. PHOTO/File. Mr. Bonface Otieno (L), Ms. Ruth Gitonga, Kabarak University staff members, and St. Andrews Tarabete Creative Writers and Book Club members after an inspiring creative writing workshop at Kabarak University last year. PHOTO/File. “Harvesting Eve”, a poem by Jacklyn Livale, a Senior English Literature teacher at the institution, brings down the curtain in the first section of the book. It is a recollection of the joys brought about by harvest season, how nature beautifully responds to the times, and how animals and birds join in the merriment as hunger is bidden goodbye, replaced by abundance and ecstasy. They yearn for more: And as so they sit, waiting for me To sing another harvests song. Going beyond the poems to explain what they are and tons of other details on poetry, this sums up what students have always been waiting for. Section B of this Poetry Encyclopedia delves into all aspects you need to know about poetry, from the (hitherto un-datable) origin of poetry to the definition of the same, types of poems, basic to complex features of a poem and poetry, imagery in poetry and its types, styles, and techniques in poetry, types and techniques of poetry, attitude, tone, mood and a guide to diction and language use in poetry. It’s an extensive spring of knowledge with vital nuggets of knowledge students need to tap from as they study, respond to, analyze, write poems, and also answer examination questions about poetry. Section C of this book checks the learners’ understanding of what they have grasped so far. It has numerous poems with Questions and Answers (Q/A), allowing the learner to practice the knowledge gained. The tail-end section of this anthology-cum-poetry encyclopedia comprises poems and questions. The answers are in the students’ minds and with sufficient information already given in the other sections, Section D is a real test of what the students would have as homework to keep them engaged, refreshed, and well-equipped. In its entirety, this anthology is a visible witness that young people have all they need to become great creatives, thinkers, solution-givers, opinionists, storytellers and all that is at their disposal to become. It is a gift to society, a fruit of well-cultured minds, an overflow of correctly-chaperoned youngsters with all potential on their hands, an epitome of what youths can become if well-informed, timely-tapped, and positively-impacted and allowed to become.