Sitti's Secrets
Mona's grandmother, Sitti, lives "on the other side of the earth" in a Palestinian village on the West Bank. Despite their uncommon language, she and her grandmother share daily life and special moments together when Mona and her father take a trip to visit Sitti. Upon her return to the United States, Mona writes a letter to the president: "If the people of the United States could meet Sitti, they'd like her for sure. You'd like her, too." Paired with Nancy Carpenter's sun-drenched illustrations, Naomi Shihab Nye's poetic text explores a child's feelings and fears about a grandparent living far away in a part of the world that most children in the United States know only one-dimensionally, if at all, through reports in the news. ©1994 Cooperative Children's Book Center
Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter
CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 5-9
Age Range:
PreK-Early Elementary (Ages 4-7)
Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-10)
Format:
Picture book
Subjects:
Feelings/Emotions
Grandmothers
Muslim People
Palestinians and Palestinian Americans
Travel
Diversity subjects:
Arab
Middle East
Muslim
Publisher:
Four Winds Press
Publish Year: 1994
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0027684601
CCBC Location: Picture Book, Nye