Tete goes to Greenland

Author: Roda Ahmed
Illustrator: Fanny Wen
Pages: 40

Tètè Michele Kpomassie is from Togo, Africa, and dislikes the heat. One day he finds a book about Greenland where the sun never makes you warm. He reads about the snow that looks like clouds and feels soothing, calming and cold on the skin.

Tètè decides to go visit and becomes the first African to ever travel to Greenland. There he becomes friends with Inuit children that dislike the cold and daydream about the warmth of the sun, playing outside without so much clothes and seeing all the animals they read about in their books about the jungle. Tètè and his new friends see the world though each other’s eyes and go on fun adventures together.

Inspired by the true story of Tètè Michele Kpomassie, the first African in Greenland.