The Fast-Paced, Page-Turning Adventure Series That’s a Celebration of African Cultures: Bernard Mensah Discusses “Kwame’s Magic Quest”

Last year I was getting ready to start putting together my 31 Days, 31 Lists posts for 2024. I knew I hadn’t seen everything out there, but I get a fairly good, fairly rounded sense of what’s being published. Still, there are two lists I await eagerly every year: The New York Public Library best book lists for kids and the Chicago Public Library best book lists for kids. And lo and behold, when I saw CPL’s Best Fiction for Younger Readers 2024 I saw an early chapter book, first in a series, that...