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Selavi, That Is Life A Haitian Story of Hope (Hardcover)
| Author: Youme | Illustrator: Youme Landowne Youme Landowne |
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Product Details:
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
ISBN-10: 0938317849
ISBN-13: 9780938317845
Sku: 35226755
Publish Date: 4/1/2004
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 10.5H x 8.5L x 0.5T
Pages:
40
Age Range:
10 to 13
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| On the streets of Haiti, a homeless child learns the meaning of family, solidarity, and hope. |
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From the Publisher:
A homeless boy on the streets of Haiti joins other street children, and together they build a home and a radio station where they can care for themselves and for other homeless children. |
Annotation:
Not many children's picture books feature a painting of police officers gazing impassively while sequences of mayhem and murder are reflected in their sunglasses, but this story of a homeless child in Haiti whose parents were murdered by the authorities is not an ordinary outing. Uniformed thugs routinely intimidate Haiti's street children, and even when a little boy like Selavi finds an orphanage for food and shelter, the building itself is burned down. Selavi, apparently a composite character in this basically true story, manages to persuade some grown-ups to construct a radio station for the orphanage: "We will write our messages in the air where they cannot be painted out." Author Youme Landowne was a street muralist in Haiti, and this is reflected in her forcefully eye-catching watercolor and collage pictures. An instructive afterword illustrated with photographs and a strong essay by Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat about her own childhood and Haiti's tumultuous history are included.
Not many children's picture books feature a painting of police officers gazing impassively while sequences of mayhem and murder are reflected in their sunglasses, but this story of a homeless child in Haiti whose parents were murdered by the authorities is not an ordinary outing. Uniformed thugs routinely intimidate Haiti's street children, and even when a little boy like Selavi finds an orphanage for food and shelter, the building itself is burned down. Selavi, apparently a composite character in this basically true story, manages to persuade some grown-ups to construct a radio station for the orphanage: "We will write our messages in the air where they cannot be painted out." Author Youme Landowne was a street muralist in Haiti, and this is reflected in her forcefully eye-catching watercolor and collage pictures. An instructive afterword illustrated with photographs and a strong essay by Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat about her own childhood and Haiti's tumultuous history are included.
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