Books
Our booklist is growing, so keep checking in to see what’s new & available from Storymoja. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we have enjoyed publishing them! To purchase these books online at affordable rates please click on the button below each book to go to Rachel’s Bargain Corner.
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Tracking the Scent of my Mother
“Planting my bare buttocks on the planks, I’d grip the rope with my hands, dangle my feet over the edge and dry in the sweet morning sun. It was on this very same plank-and-rope bridge, two years later, that I pushed my half-sister Faith into Ragati’s rushing waters. It was not my fault that she had never learnt to swim.”
Author: Muthoni Garland
ISBN: 9966-7245-0-8
Date of Publication: August 2007
Published as a Storymoja imprint
Crown Your Customer
“We have all waited for a building contractor to show up and start work as promised. Showed up on time at the doctor’s surgery for a 10.40 appointment (why are they so precise?), only to be finally seen at 12.23. Wondered why at even top international banks only three of the eight available counters are working when the line of waiting customers is about a mile long. Visited fancy shops manned by no fewer than six assistants – all of whom look bored to tears…
Author: Sunny Bindra
ISBN: 99667245-1-6
Date of Publication: September 2007
Published as a Storymoja imprint
Tropical Fish
Tropical Fish follows the lives of three very different sisters and examines the trouble they experience as they grow up. Christine is the youngest of the three sisters; as a little girl, she discovers the dynamics of her parents marriage through her mother’s jewellery drawer. She moves to the U.S and discovers more about the relationship she has with other people as well as herself. She finally returns home becomes a government worker. Patti, the middle sister, suffers humiliation at boarding school and eventually finds her peace in religion. The oldest sister Rosa, is a sexually precocious teenager with a feisty personality, however this promiscuous lifestyle catches up with her and she dies of HIV/AIDS complication.
Author: Doreen Baingana
ISBN: 177 007 0516
Date of Publication: 2005
Distributed by Storymoja
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Peanut and the burning tank
Peanut and the Burning Tank is a funny story about a boy nicknamed Peanut, who is mischievous and adventurous, growing up in rural Kenya. The book includes a vocabulary builder and thinking questions, which are excellent conversation builders for kids amongst themselves and with the adults who love them.
Author: Boniface Gachugu
ISBN: 9966-7245-6-7
Date of Publication: September 2008
Published as a Storyhippo imprint
Kamau’s Finish
Kamau’s Finish takes us through sports day at Kamau’s School. The story and the Feeling Words Boxes included help children identify and explore feelings and emotions, and all the challenges that can make or break character. The Words of Wonder also help children develop their language and communication skills. This is an excellent read for kids and for families.
Author: Muthoni Muchemi
ISBN: 9966-7245-5-9
Date of Publication: August 2008
Published as a Storyhippo imprint
In the Land of the Kitchen
A funny story based on animated kitchen utensils which helps both kids and adults discuss and identify ways in which conflict begins, how conflict affects us and how to deal with it.
Author: Oluoch Madiang’
ISBN: 9966-7245-3-2
Date of Publication: September 2008
Published as a Storyhippo imprint
Halfway Between Nairobi and Dundori.
Wanjeri and her unemployed husband Murage live in Naivasha in reduced circumstances despite their education and previous professional circumstances. Naivasha is halfway between Nairobi (where Wanjeri wants to be) and Dundori (where her husband wishes to be). Their story is further complicated by Wanjeri’s sister who lives as the kept woman of an older white man. A story about love in the Kenyan Context.
Author: Muthoni Garland
ISBN: 9966-7245-4-0
Date of Publication: July 2008
Published as a Storymoja imprint
Brethren of Ngondu
Kimando is a man doing what all young people do, living his life, when a young woman, Mukami crosses his path and changes everything he knows about life. The two discover a sincere love that changes everything they have always held dear. Love, deceit, religion and tragedy…Can they survive all that?
Author: Martin Njaga
ISBN: 9966-7245-8-3
Date of Publication: July 2008
Published as a Storymoja imprint
Living Memories
Living Memories
Living Memories is a collection of stories told by old people aged over 65 years old of what their lives were like in the colonial eras – specifically the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Author: Al Kags
ISBN: 9966-001-03-0
Date OF publication: 2009
Published as a Storymoja Imprint.
9966-7245-7-5
Wasee Wasee: 99 Mchongoanos for your Dissing Pleasure.
Publishers: Storymoja/Storyhippo
Compiled by: Joshua Ogutu Muraya, Juliet Maruru, Millie Dok
Art: Directed by Ciro Githunguri, Illustrated & designed by Lucas Wambaa
Mchongoanos are very much a part of our culture today as they were all those years ago during my primary school days. And it’s not only school going kids who enjoy this form of art but adults with a youthful heart (and a sense of humour) as well.
Retracing the Benga Rhythm
Retracing...
Take a journey into Kenya’s musical past. This beautifully illustrated booklet, audio CD and documentary DVD traces the roots of Benga music, arguably the most distinctive sound to have come out of Kenya.
