# Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

**Author:** John Steptoe
**Grade range:** Grades K–3
**First published:** 1987
**Page count:** 36
**Genre:** Africa
**ISBN-13:** `9780618062232`
**ISBN-10:** `0618062238`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/mufaros-beautiful-daughters
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a wife.

## Where this book is assigned

### Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 1987 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 1987 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 1987 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 1987 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)

### Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1988 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1988 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1988 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1988 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1988 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1988 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)

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