This book is dark and disturbing. It left me with a sense of hopelessness and despair. Despite feeling perhaps enlightened to the situations that children in Africa may face, I wish I had not read this book. The description says it's about the "wisdom and resilience of children", which is exceptionally misleading. It makes the book out to sound like it has some sort of positive spin on the atrocities these children face, but the actual stories on the pages don't reflect this at all (other than perhaps "what language is that", but that's a stretch). Beyond that, the author rambles on about unnecessary details that drag the story down. Don't buy this book unless you enjoy reading about how cruel the human race can be to children and how little their lives and opinions are valued.