1966; The Viking Press publishers; Weekly Reader Children's Book Club; hardbound; very good condition with very minor ageing; no dust jacket.
 
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Mogo was a little Kikuyu boy who lived in Kenya, East Africa. He lived in a village of round thatched huts surrounded by vegetable patches, or shambas .  Where he lived there is neither summer nor winter.  There are only long rains and short rains, with dry harvest periods in between...