At one time, all of the children in this book lived on the streets of Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Their parents died from the genocide in 1994 or from the AIDS pandemic. They have been given new life and hope at an orphanage called ROP Center for Street Children. The stories from The Skin [...]
Tale from children's story collection Solar Girl and Lunar Boy by Gabriel Constans. Harvey thinks the grass is greener and makes a break to see what's on the other side.
Taken from Guardian of the Sky Realms, IFWG Publications, 2010, ISBN: 0984329889) copyright 2010 Gerry Huntman Prologue: The Painting It was a balmy night but Maree shivered, buttoning up her coat. It was fear. Not for something specific, but the unknown—the back lanes of The Rocks were dark and menacing at midnight. This was one [...]
Excerpt from The Skin of Lions: Rwandan Folk Tales (as told by the children at ROP Center for Street Children. By NSHINIYIMANA Jean Paul (Age 11) There was once a husband and wife who had a daughter and a son. The daughter’s name was Gato and the son’s name was Gakuru. Their mother died and [...]
The squeaking bicycle wheels turned with mechanical persistence, as Jon pumped triumphantly across the neighborhood asphalt and rounded the bend towards home. It felt like the sky swooped down and pulled his excitement into the air. He was flying down the flat, familiar road of his substandard, military housing project. It was Jon’s second week [...]
Excerpt from Solar Girl and Lunar Boy. Toward the end of my academic studies I began to obediently panic about my future. “Where would I go? What would I do? Who was I? What would become of me? Would anybody care?” They were never-ending questions of my age, without any answers except for one. I [...]
The drought had lasted many moons. Life’s energy on earth was slipping away. Mammals, reptiles and fish had perished in silent misery. Plants, grass and trees were nothing more than brittle, gray, useless matter. Every source of water was bone dry. Ponds, rivers, streams, lakes, glaciers and snow had all evaporated in the sun’s scorching [...]
A very long time ago there was a teddy bear that lived happily with his young friend James aged four and a half. His name was Tedz E Bear; he always insisted on using his full name when in the presence of other teddy bears you understand because he was a very good little bear [...]
