The library bus

Title
The library bus

Personal Author EPSB
Bahram, Rahman

Summary
"Five-year-old Pari accompanies her mother on her library bus rounds for the first time, stopping at a village and a refugee camp so that girls there can exchange books and have a lesson in English. Talking with her mother as they drive, Pari learns that she is lucky that she can attend school the next year. Pari's mother had to learn in secret when it was forbidden to teach girls to read, and the young women the bus visits weekly have no other access to education. Inspired by the first library bus to operate in Kabul, Afghanistan.".

Year Published
2020

Physical Description
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Subject
Books and reading -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
 
Bookmobiles -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
 
Girls -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Kabul (Afghanistan) -- Fiction.

Added Author
Grimard, Gabrielle,

Summary
"Five-year-old Pari accompanies her mother on her library bus rounds for the first time, stopping at a village and a refugee camp so that girls there can exchange books and have a lesson in English. Talking with her mother as they drive, Pari learns that she is lucky that she can attend school the next year. Pari's mother had to learn in secret when it was forbidden to teach girls to read, and the young women the bus visits weekly have no other access to education. Inspired by the first library bus to operate in Kabul, Afghanistan.".

ISBN
9781772781014

Publisher
Toronto : Pajama Press, 2020.
 
©2020


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