Eight-year-old Kwame is eager to start Juju School and learn calabash magic, yet none of the teachers can figure out what kind of magic is in his gourd. When one of Kwame's new friends is possessed by an evil magic, its power is revealed.
Eight-year-old Kwame is called upon to save the world from the evil magic that has turned his friend into a green flame--new to magic he has five days to learn as much as he can before setting out on a dangerous journey to the Magic Mountain, where the flame is trying to create an all-powerful calabash.
Provides step-by-step instructions for making, decorating, and playing more than sixty string, wind, and percussion instruments made from gourds, along with numerous color photos and cultural information on the instruments' places of origin.
When Chinye is sent into the forest one night by her cruel stepmother, she encounters an old woman who tells her where to find a a magic gourd holding wealth and riches.
