I Want My Banana! Arabic-English : Bilingual Edition Synopsis
Monkey is very upset. He's hungry and he can't find his banana! The other jungle animals all want to help ... but are they really trying to be his friend? Use the magic of this beautifully illustrated story to encourage a love of books and reading.
There is a bilingual text in English and Arabic, and a picture dictionary at the back of the book.
Mary risk is the pseudonym for the author Elizabeth Laird, an award-winning British writer of children's fiction and travel, known for the large body of folktales which she complied from regions of Ethiopia. The author uses the pseudonym for her TV and educational writing, including the TV adaptation of The Animals of Farthing Wood. Under the Mary Risk name, Elizabeth has also penned several stories for children learning English as a foreign language.