Chino's Treasure Hunt - (Adventures with Chino) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Chino isn't too sure about going to stay with her grandparents. A week feels like a very long time . . . But when she arrives, Chino and her grandparents embark on a magical treasure hunt and make exciting discoveries along the way.

Told with enormous warmth and gentle humor, this is a true celebration of the relationship between grandparent and grandchild, from one of today's most celebrated and revered writers, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, exquisitely illustrated by Joelle Avelino.

About the Author

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, Financial Times, and Zoetrope: All-Story. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction "Winner of Winners" award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck; and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, both national bestsellers. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

JOELLE AVELINO is a Congolese and Angolan illustrator who grew up in the United Kingdom. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Elle magazine, Time magazine, Huffington Post, and by the BBC and Malala Fund.