Old Mikamba Had a Farm Cover:Hardcover In a great green room

In a great green room

And when the truth comes down with the rain one stormy summer afternoon

Paul Robeson

2009 Silver Birch Award

No matter what the cost

Old Mikamba Had a Farm Cover:Hardcover In a great green roomThis fabulous version of the classic nursery song Old MacDonald introduces children to a menagerie of African animals and their sounds. It is beautifully illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner Rachel Isadora, with her signature collage style artwork. Old Mikamba had a farm, E I E I O. And on this farm he had . . . a giraffe, a baboon, and an elephant! Meet Old Mikamba, who watches over a wide variety of animals on his game farm in the plains of Africa.