Welcome to Somalia (Welcome to the World)

By Buzzy Keith, Erik Bruun, Buzzy Keith

Book Overview

Readers are introduced to the basic geography, topography, history, people, culture, climate, and industries of the Somali Republic. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188482272X
• ISBN13: 9781884822728
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 13.9" x 13.8"

Customer Reviews

Very bright and beautiful illustrations that portray such a dark time

The illustrations are bright and beautiful. The story itself is just as intriguing. I was very inspired that this dedicated librarian, Alia Muhammad Baker, filled her home with books from the local library she worked at to protect them from aerial bombing in Iraq. She is a pillar of education, highly recommended!

4 1/2 The Woman Who Saved a Library

This contemporary story about an Iraqi librarian rescuing 70% of the Basra Central Library's books speaks of both individual courage and the irreplaceable value of books. It's based on actual events: With Allied bombers approaching Basra in April 2003, chief librarian Alia Muhammad Baker asks the local government for permission to move the books. For reasons not explained to the reader, official deny her request, "so Alia...

Excellent Book For Kids

This is an Excellent book for kids, it does so many things. It celeberates a true hero, it shows the kids the importance of books and it helps kids realize that there are ugly sides to war that other kids have to go through. I bought this book for my kids as well and they loved it.

Educators Recommend

"Alia Muhammad Baker is the librarian of Basra, a port city in the sand-swept country of Iraq." So begins this moving tale of one librarian's attempts to save the beloved books in her library as war threatens. When the governor of Basra refuses her request to move the books to a safe place, "Alia takes matters into her own hands." When the city is "lit with a firestorm of bombs and gunfire," Alia, with the help of her friends,...

The Librarian of Basra

The Librarian of Basra By Jeannette Winter James H. This is a book about the war and how important books are to some people. Alia Muhammad Baker clearly loves her books more than anything in the world. Then she hears people talk about the war and how they think its coming to Basra. So then she starts moving some of the books to her house. Then the war comes and she needs to move the books somewhere. So she orders...