Dhegdheer: A Scary Somali Folktale

By Marian A. Hassan

Book Overview

The Somali Bilingual Book Project reflects the Minnesota Humanities Commission's commitment to promote and preserve heritage languages and increase English literacy skills of refugee and immigrant... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931016194
• ISBN13: 9781931016193
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Minnesota Humanities Commission
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

Betsy Bowen's boldly tribal paintings illustrate this one-of-a-kind folktale.

Dhegdheer: A Scary Somali Folktale is a striking English/Somali bilingual picturebook of an ancient cautionary tale from Somalia. When the Hargega Valley is plagued by the monstrous Dhegdheer, who devours everyone in her path, a widow and her young son try to escape with their lives. Only their own innocence and virtue has a prayer of saving them from the monster. Betsy Bowen's boldly tribal paintings illustrate this one-of-a-kind folktale.