The playgrounds of Babel
"This unusual, thought-provoking story begins with an old woman telling a tale to a group of children in a playground. One of the boys can't understand what she is saying, so another offers to translate. The old woman's tale is inspired by the Tower of Babel story: In the days when everyone spoke th...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Berkeley :
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press,
2019.
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| Summary: | "This unusual, thought-provoking story begins with an old woman telling a tale to a group of children in a playground. One of the boys can't understand what she is saying, so another offers to translate. The old woman's tale is inspired by the Tower of Babel story: In the days when everyone spoke the same language, the people built a tower to reach God. But God was annoyed and sent a dragon to destroy the tower, then created new languages for everyone so that they couldn't understand each other. Fortunately, two little girls find a way to communicate through song. Told entirely through dialogue, moving back and forth between the old woman's tale and the exchange between the two boys, this original, sometimes funny story raises questions about what divides us and what brings us together, in spite of all our differences--it is the power of song in this case, which ultimately brings hope."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm Issued also in electronic format. |
| ISBN: | 9781773060361 1773060368 |
| Author Notes: | JonArno Lawson's internationally acclaimed picture book Sidewalk Flowers won the Governor General's Literary Award and was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book, among many other accolades. He is a four-time winner of the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Children's Poetry and the author of numerous books for children and adults. JonArno lives in Toronto with his wife and three children. Piet Grobler is a world-renowned illustrator of children's books. He has illustrated more than eighty books, which have been published in many languages, and he has won a number of awards, including two silver medals at the Noma Concours (Japan), the Octogone de Chêne (France) and a Golden Apple at the Biennial of Illustration in Bratislava. He lives in Pretoria and is the visiting Professor in Illustration at the University of Worcester, in the United Kingdom. |
