The library bus / by Bahram Rahman ; illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard.
Record details
- ISBN: 1772781010 : SAL
- ISBN: 9781772781014 : SAL
- ISBN: 1772781010
- ISBN: 9781772781014
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Pajama Press, 2020.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "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."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Available copies
- 15 of 16 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 16 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Ridgefield Library | JPB RAHMAN (Text) | 34010150872983 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | JP RAHMAN, B (Text)
Digital Bookplate/Donation note:
In memory of Jack Noujaim
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34005150485158 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
Terryville Public Library | E RAH (Text) | 34028146977971 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Warren Public Library | JP RAH (Text) | 33720146625011 | Picture Book | Available | - |
Weston Public Library | E RAHMAN (Text) | 34053148771487 | Easy | Available | - |
Willimantic Public Library | E RAH (Text)
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Donated by the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
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34036127093239 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
The Library Bus
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Summary
The Library Bus
Author Bahram Rahman grew up in Afghanistan during years of civil war and the restrictive Taliban regime of 1996-2001. He wrote The Library Bus to tell new generations about the struggles of women who, like his own sister, were forbidden to learn. It is still dark in Kabul, Afghanistan when the library bus rumbles out of the city. There are no bus seats--instead there are chairs and tables and shelves of books. And there are no passengers--instead there is Pari, who is nervously starting her first day as Mama's library helper. Pari stands tall to hand out notebooks and pencils at the villages and the refugee camp, but she feels intimidated. The girls they visit are learning to write English from Mama. Pari can't even read or write in Farsi yet. But next year she will go to school and learn all there is to know. And she is so lucky. Not long ago, Mama tells her, girls were not allowed to read at all. Award-winning illustrator Gabrielle Grimard's pensive and captivating art transports the reader to Afghanistan in the time after the Taliban's first regime. Her rich landscapes and compelling characters celebrate literacy, ingenuity, and the strength of women and girls demanding a future for themselves.