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Chris Powling, writing in Books for Keeps, compared the visual impact of A Is for Africa to "stepping from a darkened room straight into noon sunshine, so bright and needle-sharp are the author's photographs." Onyefulu selects traditional, African objects and artifacts to exemplify each letter, observed Roger Sutton, the critic adding in the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, that in A Is for Africa such objects "are simply explained and provide good material for a lapsitting visit."
Like A Is for Africa, the counting book Emeka's Gift contains a brightly lit visual tribute to Nigerian village life that some critics have found enchanting.
127; January, 1999, Christine A. Moesch, review of Grandfather's Work, p. 1779; April 15, 1996, p. 50.
Publishers Weekly, June 28, 1993, p. An ogbo, or age-set, is a tradition practiced by some Nigerian villages in which each person is grouped together with all those born within a few years of each other.
"Keep this title in mind when Kwanzaa next comes around or any time you want a little lesson in cooperation," advised Bush in her review of Ogbo for the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.
Onyefulu's book Grandfather's Work: A Traditional Healer in Nigeria introduces the variety of work available to Nigerian villagers, including doctor, lawyer, and artisan, while also taking a close look at the narrator's grandfather's work as a healer.
The simple story finds a young boy setting off to buy his grandmother a birthday gift. the everyday life of people, especially Africans, as we have been portrayed by the media as poor people, constantly in need of the West for everything." She decided to create her first book, A Is for Africa, "in order to show the African way of life not often seen in the West and in children's books."
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Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 1999, p. 75.
School Librarian, November, 1993, p. She has successfully introduced English-speaking audiences to the range and variety of village life in her homeland through her picture books for young readers. 135; July, 2001, Genevieve Ceraldi, review of Saying Good-bye, p.
. Illustrated with her own photographs, Onyefulu's books have been praised as useful additions to classroom libraries for the lessons they teach about the universality of some experiences, as well as for offering a rarely seen depiction of African village life. 627; January-February, 1999, Maeve Visser Knoth, review of Grandfather's Work, pp.
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Junior Bookshelf, August, 1995, review of Emeka's Gift, p.
. Illustrated with her own photographs, Onyefulu's books have been praised as useful additions to classroom libraries for the lessons they teach about the universality of some experiences, as well as for offering a rarely seen depiction of African village life. 24.
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, September, 1994, Roger Sutton, review of A Is for Africa, pp.