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Nancy Keane's | Booktalks -- Quick and Simple | |
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Verde, Susan.
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Booktalk #1 With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie’s kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might, Gie Gie cannot bring the water closer; she cannot make it run clearer. She rises before the sun to make the long journey to the well. Instead of a crown, she wears a heavy pot on her head to collect the water. (Bill Martin, Jr. Picture Book Award, 2018) Booktalk #2 When you are a princess, there are so many ways to spend your day: dancing, singing, playing. But if you are Princess Gigi, your entire day is spent walking four miles with the other women in your village to retrieve the water your family needs for drinking, cooking, bathing, cleaning. And then walking back to your village. Based on the childhood of Burkina Faso fashion model Georgie Badiel, The Water Princess details the real life struggles faced by many African communities that do not have enough clean water nearby to life a healthy lifestyle. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2019-2020) |
| SUBJECTS: Africa -- Fiction. Blacks -- Africa -- Fiction. Picture books for children. Water supply -- Fiction. |
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