The Boy Who Counted Stars
Joseph Kariuki
The Boy Who Counted Stars
Joseph KariukiKSh 300
Priced by the author in KES (Kenya). You pay the NGN equivalent at today’s rate.
About this book
Twelve-year-old Njoroge is certain he can prove there are exactly 4,112 stars over his village. Proving it will take him further than he has ever walked.
Sample
Musyoka could count anything: goats, buses, the seconds between his mother's cough and the next one. What he could not count was stars, though he tried every night from the roof of his uncle's shop. "Nine hundred and six," he told Wairimu at school. "You made that up." "I counted twice and got the same number, which is what scientists do." Wairimu, who intended to be a lawyer, considered this and found it admissible. That was the beginning of the Nairobi Junior Astronomic…
The author
Joseph Kariuki is a Kenyan teacher and children's author. He has counted the stars over Nyeri many times.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 212
- Published
- 2022
- Chapters available
- 1