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Jane Cadwallader
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and the Bakonzi Tree Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali
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I live in a very big city, Buenos Aires. I have been drawing all my life, ever since I was a child as I didn’t have a TV. I enjoy most of all drawing comic strips and picturing myself and my kids in the illustrations that I create.
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A nail biting adventure in the Rwandan rainforest with Uncle Jack, Jim, Daisy and May (and of course Grumpy the dog!). Can they save the life of King Kambogo? You will learn something about the Nyungwe Forest in this exciting adventure where Uncle Jack and the others fly off to Africa to look for a cure for King Kambogo. They don’t realise but there are some bad men who don’t want them to find the cure!
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My name is Jane and I live in a beautiful Spanish city, Madrid. I’m an English author of children’s books. I’ve always loved creating stories and songs for children. The best ideas come to me while… I’m jogging!
Grammar and structures Past simple regular and irregular forms Verb + infinitive / Verb + -ing / Adverbs Can / can’t Must / mustn’t Question words: what? / why? Prepositions of place
Jane Cadwallader Uncle Jack and the Bakonzi Tree
Jane Cadwallader Uncle Jack and the Bakonzi Tree
Vocabulary areas Animals, nature, feelings
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Jane Cadwallader
Uncle Jack and the Bakonzi Tree Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali
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here’s a picture of my friend King Kambogo and Nyungwe Forest. Let’s go and listen to him!’ said Uncle Jack.
THURSDAY
WE G N U Y N E V SA REST FO FRIDAY 24 APRIL th
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FRIDAY King Kambogo told the people about Nyungwe Forest and the animals that live there. 3
Then he told them about some bad men who wanted to cut down the forest to grow tea. Most of the people said, ‘We must help the forest!’ But there were two bad men listening to King Kambogo.
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One of them said, ‘We must stop King Kambogo!’ The other said, ‘Let’s give him a stomach-ache with this medicine, then he can’t tell people about Nyungwe Forest and we can cut down the forest to grow tea!’
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The next week Uncle Jack got a letter. It was from King Kambogo. ‘I must go and see King Kambogo in hospital!’ said Uncle Jack.
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That afternoon Uncle Jack went to visit King Kambogo. King Kambogo wasn’t well! ‘I feel terrible!’ he said. ‘Some people from the television are coming to talk to me about Nyungwe Forest but I can’t talk to them. I’m too weak.’ The bad men were behind the curtain. ‘Ha Ha,’ they thought, ‘our plan is working!’
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‘I want you to go to Nyungwe Forest and bring me some bark from the Umusurirabakonzi tree. I need this to get well,’ said King Kambogo. Uncle Jack listened. The two bad men listened too. ‘We must find this tree before Uncle Jack,’ the bad men said very quietly, ‘and stop Uncle Jack bringing the bark to King Kambogo.’
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Uncle Jack put a map, some cheese sandwiches, a pineapple and some tea into a basket. Of course the children wanted to go with him! Grumpy the dog didn’t want to go ... but he had to help Uncle Jack with the children! Uncle Jack said, ‘We are going to Africa. We must look for a Umusurirabakonzi tree.’ ‘A WHAT?’ asked Daisy. ‘Let’s just call it a Bakonzi tree,’ said May. ‘O.K.’ said Uncle Jack laughing. 9
‘We can find the Bakonzi tree in Nyungwe Forest and Nyungwe Forest is in Rwanda and Rwanda is in Africa,’ said Uncle Jack.
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