Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
An African Tale

This is a Fantastic Fairytale from Africa. There are 2 daughters of a chief that are both very beautiful. One daughter is kind and beautiful on the inside and one daughter would rather be Queen and have people serve her. She is unkind to the other sister. The kind sister tends a beautiful garden and......more

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I like retellings of folk tales and this one was good. An African cinderella story with the moral that niceness is rewarded in the end. I liked the way the story included kindness to animals and those in a weaker position than yourself. I didn't like the way that when Nyasha's sister was unkind to h......more

The illustrations are magnificent, with lovely depictions of the people and animals. This tale is fairy tale like predictable but very entertaining. I appreciated how the author-illustrator gave credit to the folktale that was his inspiration and how at the beginning he translates the meanings of a......more