Chino’s Treasure Hunt

A stunning, gentle and joyful family story from award-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Chino and Bunny are going to visit Grandma and Grandpa. Chino isn’t too sure about going… But when she arrives, Chino discovers they have a map leading to treasure buried in the garden…

Together, Chino and her grandparents embark on a magical hunt treasure hunt, making exciting discoveries along the way.

Featuring characters from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s exquisite debut picture book, Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, this gentle and heart-warming story about family, love and spending time together comes from one of the most outstanding contemporary authors of our generation and is illustrated in stunning colour by Joelle Avelino.

About the author

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than 55 languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” 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. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief; Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James; and a novel, Dream Count. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the US and Nigeria.

Joelle Avelino is a Congolese & Angolan illustrator who grew up in the UK. Her work includes Hey You! A Celebration of Growing Up Black by Dapo Adeola.