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- Milet Picture Dictionary English-Somali text by Sedat Turhan
 An English-Somali picture dictionary.
j 423.9354 TURHAN: Forest Park, Mason Square - The Lion's Share: a Somali Folktale = Qayb libaaxretold by Said Salah Ahmed
- After the animals hunt and kill a camel, the lion asks them how the meat will be shared.
j398.2 AHMED: Brightwood, Central, Indian Orchard, Pine Point, Sixteen Acres
- Wiil Waal : a Somali folktale retold by Kathleen Moriarty
- Wise Somali leader Wiil Waal asks men to bring him the part of a sheep that symbolizes what can unite men as one.
J 398.2096 MORIARTY: Brightwood, Central, East Springfield, Indian Orchard, Liberty, Mason Square, Pine Point, Sixteen Acres
- Boqorkii tukaha : waa sheeko-xariireed reer Kuuriya ah = The crow king : a Korean folk story by Lee Joo-Hye
- A bilingual folktale.
JBIN SOMALI/ENGLISH: Mason Square
- Maraqii Ayeeyo ee Sabtida = Grandma's Saturday soup by Sally Fraser
- A picture book with parallel text in English and Somali.
JBIN SOMALI/ENGLISH: Mason Square
- Chameleon Swims = Jirjirroole Waa Dabaalanayaa by Laura Hambleton
- Chameleon learns to swim with the help of his friend Salamander. Bilingual.
JBOARD: Mason Square
- Duudkii aadka u gaajooday = The very hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days. Bilingual picture book.
JBIN SOMALI: Mason Square
- Gooldilokis iyo saddexdii madaxkuti = Goldilocks and the three bears retold by Kate Clynes
- A picture book with parallel text in English and Somali.
JBIN SOMALI/ENGLISH: Mason Square
- Saddexdii orgi ee ilma Garaf = The three billy goats Gruff retold by Henriette Barkow
- A bilingual fairytale.
JBIN SOMALI/ENGLISH: Mason Square
- Ayeeyo Nana = Grandma Nanaby VÉronique Tadjo
- Grandma Nana loves all children and all children love her. She tells them wonderful stories and poses riddles which make them laugh together. Parallel text in Somali and English.
JBIN SOMALI: Mason Square
- A Gift for Sadiaby Marie Fritz Perry
- A young Somali girl immigrates to Minnesota and through the friendship of a wounded Canada goose learns how to accept her new life in America.
JJ PERRY MARIE Gift for: Liberty, Mason Square
- The Color of Homeby Mary Hoffman
- Hassan, newly-arrived in the United States and feeling homesick, paints a picture at school that shows his old home in Somalia as well as the reason his family had to leave. A picture book in English.
JJ HOFFMAN MARY Color of: Central
Also available in Spanish: Los colores de casa. J 860 HOFFMAN: Pine Point
- Somali-English, English-Somali dictionary and phrasebook by Nicholas Awde et al.
- A dictionary that includes a phrase book and bibliographical references. For adults and teens.
493.54321 SOMALI Brightwood, Central, East Springfield, Forest Park, Indian Orchard, Liberty, Mason Square, Pine Point, Sixteen Acres
- Sheekoy, Sheeko, Sheeko Xariira
- On CD! Listen to four Somali folktales in English and in Somali, plus hear some traditional Somali music!
JCDBOOK 398.2: Central
- Dhegdheer: A Scary Somali Folktale retold by Marian A. Hassan
- Dhegdheer tries to capture a woman and her child and eat them up in this cautionary tale. In English and Somali.
J 398.2 HASSAN: Central
- My Friend Jamal by Anna McQuinn
- Joseph's best friend Jamal is Somali and his family has different customs and traditions from Joseph, but through their shared interests they remain close friends.
JJ MCQUINN ANNA My: Brightwood, Mason Square, Sixteen Acres
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