About the Book
Samad loved animals. His dream was to spend a whole day in a forest and sleep in the treehouse. Follow Samad as he embarked on this adventure where he made wonderful friends and amazing discoveries. Going into a forest has never been so much fun.
Ara kē te aroha nui o Samad ki te kararehe. Ko tōna tino moemoeā kia pau te rā ki te ngahere, ā, kia moe atu ki roto i tētahi whare rākau. Whai kanohi mai i a Samad i a ia ka takahi i tana haerenga, ā, tūtakitaki ana ia ki ētahi hoa he ngākau pai me ngā tūhuratanga kei taumata kē. Mōhio nei koe, arā noa atu te pārekarekatanga o te haere ki te ngahere.
A bilingual edition of this book is available in the following languages: Acholi, Afar, Afrikaans Akwapim, Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Asante, Bandi, Bassa, Bemba, Burmese, Chichewa, Chinese, Chinyanja, Chokwe, Coptic, Dan, Dinka, Edo, Efik, Ekugesii, Emakwa, Fante, Finnish, Fon, Fulfulde, Ga, Gikuyu, Gola, Grebo, Gurage, Hadiyyasa, Harrari, Hausa, Ibibio, Igbo, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Kalabari, Kalanga, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kambaata, Kanembu, Kanuri, Khmer, Kiembu, Kikongo, Kimbundu, Kimeru, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Konso, Korean, Kpelle, Kru, Kunama, Kurdish, Lao, Lingala, Lomwe, Lorma, Luganda, Lubukusu, Luo, Maasai, Maan, Mandinka, Maninka, Mende, Ndebele, Mauritian Creole, Mongolian, Nobiin, Nuer, Nupe, Oromo, Pidgin, Sango, Portuguese, Runyoro-Rutooro, Shona, Sesotho, Sidama, Sepedi, Somali, Somali Osmanya, Setswana, Siswati, Soninke, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Temne, Tigre, Tigrinya, Tumbuka, Tshiluba, Tshivenda, Turkish, Umbundu, Vai, Wolayita, Wolof, Xhosa, Xitsonga, Yao, Yoruba, Zarma, Zulu.
About the Author :
Mohammed Umar was born in Azare in Nigeria's Bauchi State. He studied political science at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He then graduated with an M.A. in journalism from Moscow State University (1991) and M.A. in political economy from Middlesex University, UK (1996). Mohammed Umar served as a judge for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2009 and he was the winner of the Muslim News Award for Excellence in Arts in 2010. He lives in London. His books include Amina, The Illegal Immigrant, The Adventures of Jamil, The Hunter Becomes the Hunted, Sunset at Dawn, The Talking Baobab Tree, Aziba in the Savannah, Samad in the Desert, The Enemies Inside, Hanzala's Birthday Present, The Hunter Becomes the Hunted, The Circle of Life and A Trip to the Zoo.
