The library bus

Título
The library bus

Bahram, Rahman

Resumen
"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.".

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2020

Descripción física
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Término de la materia
Books and reading -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
 
Bookmobiles -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
 
Girls -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.

Término geográfico
Kabul (Afghanistan) -- Fiction.

Autor añadido
Grimard, Gabrielle,

Síntesis
"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

Información de publicación
Toronto : Pajama Press, 2020.
 
©2020


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