Like Osas Pride Grifalconi, 1990, It Takes a Village Cowen-Fletcher, 1994 depicts both universal and cultural specific themes. In the story, Yemi is learning to take responsibilities, watching her little brother while her mother is busy. And she is proud of being able to take such a responsibility. The positive portrayal of sibling relationship seems to be a common and preferable theme in many childrens books. The culturally specific value, collectivism, is carried out through the story naturally and in an authentic manner. Cowen-Fletchers first hand experience of living in Benin and her careful note in the end of the story add the ukryj opis