Storytime

Join the National Building Museum and co-author Dipesh Pabari for a special Building Reader’s Club storytime featuring his 2024 Children’s Africana Book Award winning picture book, Flipflopi. After the reading, attendees will have a chance to build their own creations using recyclable materials inspired by the book.

Storytime is FREE and packed full of reading, songs, and activities designed to promote language and literacy skills! Story themes vary weekly but relate to current exhibitions at the museum.

About Dipesh Pabari

Dipesh Pabari is a Kenyan with over twenty years’ experience in environmental and outdoor education. He started his career as a primary school teacher and soon found opportunities to focus on marrying his two passions – the environment and young people. Dipesh is currently a Director of one of East Africa’s leading outdoor adventure and education companies that specializes in school trips for children from all over the world and is also the co-founder of the Flipflopi Project – a leading East African movement against plastic pollution that built the world’s first recycled plastic sailing dhow. Dipesh lives with his wife and two children on the south coast of Kenya.

About the Children’s Africana Book Awards

The Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) are presented annually to the authors and illustrators of the best children’s and young adult books on Africa published or republished in the U.S. Africa Access and the Outreach Council of the African Studies Association (ASA) created CABA in 1991 to encourage the publication and use of accurate, balanced children’s materials about Africa. Click here to see the 2024 CABA winners.