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Siblings Together

8/3/2012

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Every evening this week I have kissed my boys goodnight well before their bedtimes and gone to spend the evening in the company of some other sibling children. Together we have shared a warm orange room with a wood burning stove. They have shared sofas and armchairs, blankets and hot chocolate with each other. And I have shared stories with them. Stories of naughty tortoise and clever monkey. And also - so, so common in traditional stories - stories of lost children, abandoned children, betrayed children. And how they get though, and survive, and thrive. Tonight is the last night. I will say goodbye to them, and they more importantly will say goodbye to their siblings and go back to the various care and foster homes where they are looked after, separately. May the road rise with them.

To find out more about the incredible charity who organises holidays for Siblings Together click here. 
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    I am Atinuke. I am author of all the bright and beautiful children’s books shown here. I am also a traditional oral Nigerian storyteller. 
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    All my books are set in Africa. And all the stories I tell as an oral storyteller originate in Africa too. There my roots go deep into the rich soil.

    On this website you will find info about my work and a blog about the joy of it all.

    All the text on this website is copyright Atinuke 2018 and all the images are copyright of the wonderful and amazing illustrators of my books -Lauren Tobia, Warwick Johnson Cadwell, Onyinye Iwu, Mouni Feddeg  or Angela Brooksbank. Please do not use any text or images without our permission.  

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