Chike and The River

Chike and the River is a children's story by Chinua Achebe. It was written in 1966, and was the first of several children's stories Achebe would write.

Works by Chinua Achebe
Novels
  • Things Fall Apart (1958)
  • No Longer at Ease (1960)
  • Arrow of God (1964)
  • A Man of the People (1966)
  • Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
Short stories
  • "Civil Peace" (1971)
  • "Vengeful Creditor" (1972)
Short story collections
  • The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories (1962)
  • Girls at War and Other Stories (1973)
  • African Short Stories (1985)
  • Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (1992)
Children's stories
  • Chike and the River (1966)
  • How the Leopard Got His Claws (1972)
  • The Flute (1975)
  • The Drum (1978)
Non-fiction
  • Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays (1988), including "An Image of Africa" (1975)
  • "The Trouble with Nigeria" (1983)

Famous quotes containing the word river:

    “Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are sealed;
    I strove against the stream and all in vain;
    Let the great river take me to the main.
    No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield;
    Ask me no more.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)