Jambo Means Hello
{{short description|1975 Caldecott Honor book}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
| image = Cover of the 1974 book Jambo Means Hello Swahili Alphabet Book.jpg
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| author = Muriel Feelings
| illustrator = Tom Feelings
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| country = United States
| genre = Children's picture book
| publisher = Dial Press
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| isbn = 0140546529
| awards = {{plainlist|
- Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (1975)
- Caldecott Honor (1975)
}}
| pub_date = June 3, 1974
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Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book is a 1974 picture book written by Muriel Feelings and illustrated by Tom Feelings. It is an abecedarium of Swahili terms for the 24 letters in the Swahili alphabet.
Jambo Means Hello won the 1974 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Book and was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 1975.
Reception
Kirkus Reviews highlighted how "Tom Feelings' white robed figures go about their daily work and play in a softly glowing gray mist that gives their way of life a dreamily utopian quality in keeping with the author's intentions."{{cite web |date=1 April 1974 |title=Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/muriel-feelings-2/jambo-means-hello-swahili-alphabet-book/ |access-date=9 September 2023 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en |archive-date=10 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230910184814/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/muriel-feelings-2/jambo-means-hello-swahili-alphabet-book/ |url-status=live }}