Levelled Reading Scheme in Amharic
Amharic stories for beginners:
Decode basic fedel Kindle Edition
by Tsion Kiros (Author), Helen Papworth (Illustrator)
10 Simple stories for children written using the first fedels of the Amharic alphabet. These illustrated stories are at level one and will help children decode Amharic characters.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074Y2Z6KX
Now available on kindle from £3.88
Level 2 books are currently available through Midako Publishing.
Decode basic fedel Kindle Edition
by Tsion Kiros (Author), Helen Papworth (Illustrator)
10 Simple stories for children written using the first fedels of the Amharic alphabet. These illustrated stories are at level one and will help children decode Amharic characters.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074Y2Z6KX
Now available on kindle from £3.88
Level 2 books are currently available through Midako Publishing.
Midako Publishing produce materials to help children learn to read and write in Amharic.
https://www.facebook.com/Midakobooks
https://www.facebook.com/Midakobooks
English Graded Readers for Ethiopian children
This is Hana and her family. Hana likes to play and sometimes gets into trouble.
Her older brother is called Dawit and likes to solve problems.
Her older sister is called Bety and she likes running.
Tomos is her baby brother.
Her grandfather is deaf.
Her mother makes injera to sell in the market and her father drives a bajaj taxi.
Follow the stories of Hana and her family in a new series of English Graded Readers published by Shama Books.
Order from Saida Jobira, Sales Dept, Shama Books, Addis Ababa
Te. +251 - 111 - 556200/557900
Cell No: +251911303853
Fax: +251 - 111 = 559010
Email: saidajbr@gmail.com (See links page for list of books available)
Her older brother is called Dawit and likes to solve problems.
Her older sister is called Bety and she likes running.
Tomos is her baby brother.
Her grandfather is deaf.
Her mother makes injera to sell in the market and her father drives a bajaj taxi.
Follow the stories of Hana and her family in a new series of English Graded Readers published by Shama Books.
Order from Saida Jobira, Sales Dept, Shama Books, Addis Ababa
Te. +251 - 111 - 556200/557900
Cell No: +251911303853
Fax: +251 - 111 = 559010
Email: saidajbr@gmail.com (See links page for list of books available)
Tales from other lands
A series of stories from different lands including China, India, Peru, Nepal and Egypt. This illustration is from the story of the Willow Pattern set in Japan.
Follow the stories in a new series of English Graded Readers published by Shama Books.
Order from Saida Jobira, Sales Dept, Shama Books, Addis Ababa
Te. +251 - 111 - 556200/557900
Cell No: +251911303853
Fax: +251 - 111 = 559010
Email: saidajbr@gmail.com (See links page for list of books available)
Follow the stories in a new series of English Graded Readers published by Shama Books.
Order from Saida Jobira, Sales Dept, Shama Books, Addis Ababa
Te. +251 - 111 - 556200/557900
Cell No: +251911303853
Fax: +251 - 111 = 559010
Email: saidajbr@gmail.com (See links page for list of books available)
Supplementary Readers in Amharic
Helen illustrated a series of books for children in the Amhara Region. These are a few samples from the traditional tales published by Habte Books @ Save the Children Norway
See www.habtebooks.com
See www.habtebooks.com
Helen also produced illustrations for the Civics textbooks in Ethiopia, an Amharic/English bilingual storybook and an Amharic language magazine for Ethiopian children living in Europe. She has written short stories for Writers for Ethiopian Children's bilingual storybooks and prepared the layouts for the Civics textbooks. More recently she has produced illustrations for 9 supplementary readers for the Amhara Region through Save the Children Norway.
Civics and Ethical Education
In 2008/9 Helen was involved in preparing the Ethiopian Civics and Ethical Education textbooks for publication. She edited the English language Grade 9 to 12 books and added illustrations, many of which came from her own photographs and sketches. The Amharic Grade 5 to 8 textbooks were prepared in Publisher format with illustrations including many of Helen's own. She edited the English translation of these books. Finally, she wrote and illustrated the teachers' guides for the Grade 9 to 12 books with the head of the Civics and Ethical Department in the Ministry of Education, Addis Ababa.
Audio versions of the Grade 9 and Grade 10 books have now been produced, the words spoken by Helen, for the organisation, SENEthiopia, They are part of a series of recordings to be used by students who are visually impaired.
See: http://www.sene.org.uk/index.html
Audio versions of the Grade 9 and Grade 10 books have now been produced, the words spoken by Helen, for the organisation, SENEthiopia, They are part of a series of recordings to be used by students who are visually impaired.
See: http://www.sene.org.uk/index.html
Illustrated storybooks for Ethiopian Children
While working in Ethiopia, Helen helped produce two of the back-to-back bilingual books for Ethiopian children and included an illustrated story, Lucky Black Cat, for the Tikur Fiyeley (Black Goat) anthology which is for older children. Two more anthologies (Azuregn and Atazuregn) are available in Ethiopia with Helen's illustrated stories in each.
