Burying the moon
"A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village. In Latika's village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business in a field. There are scorpion...
| Main Author: | Poulin, Andrée (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Zohra, Sonali (Illustrator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Published: |
Toronto :
Groundwood Books,
2021.
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| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
"A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village. In Latika's village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business in a field. There are scorpions and snakes in the field, and germs that make people sick. For the girls in the village, no toilets mean leaving school when they reach puberty. No one in the village wants to talk about this shameful problem. But Latika has had enough. When a government representative visits their village, she sees her chance to make one of her dreams come true: the construction of public toilets, which would be safer for everybody in her village. This beautifully illustrated novel in verse shines a light on how a lack of access to sanitation facilities affects girls and women in many parts of the world."-- |
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| Item Description: |
Translation of: Enterrer la lune. |
| Physical Description: |
119 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781773066042 1773066048 |
| Author Notes: |
Andrée Poulin was born in Orléans, Ontario and today lives in Gatineau, Quebec. She has published more than fifty books and has been a finalist several times for the Governor General's Award and the TD literary award, winning the latter in 2014 for La plus grosse poutine du monde. She worked in international development assistance for more than a decade before becoming an author. Sonali Zohra is a Indian illustrator living in Bangalore. She studied fine arts and photography, and holds a master's degree in design from the University of South Wales, in Australia. She is fully aware of the lack of sanitation facilities as depicted in this novel. When she was small, she would often accompany her father, who worked for UNICEF India on projects concerning women's health in rural areas. |