Morocco
CWA International Country of Study 2013
Books
The Butter Man
picture book about a child's Moroccan-born father and an important story from childhood that he shares with his family. Alalou, Elizabeth, and Alalou, Ali. (2008).
Mirror
This innovative picture book is comprised of two parts designed to be read simultaneously – one from the left, the other from the right. Page by page, we experience a day in the lives of two boys and their families - one from inner city Sydney, Australia and the other from a small, remote village in Morocco, North Africa. Jeannie Baker
Africa is not a country
Part informational book, part collection of narrative vignettes, this picture book disrupts the overgeneralization that Africa is made up of one group of people and celebrates its incredible diversity of countries and cultures. Knight, Margy Burns, and Melnicove, Mark. (2000)
An interview with Jeannie Baker on ABC radio.
Lesson plans for Mirror
2011 Shortlisted books http://alturl.com/fzqya
Read for Australiahttp://www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au/mirror
The Classroom Bookshelf http://alturl.com/ubfdx
Interview with Jeannie Baker on ABC
My Father's Shop
There is a rug in his father s shop that Mustafa loves. (It has a hole in it, so you can put it over your head and still see out.) No one else wants the rug, though lots of tourists visit the shop. His father always welcomes them "Bienvenue" and offers them tea "O cha wa ikaga desu ka?" Mustafa s father would like him to know some words in other languages too, and he tells Mustafa that he may have the rug if he agrees to learn. But after the first lesson, Mustafa is so bored he runs out of the shop (with the carpet on his head). Ending up at the market, he finds a very different way of learning foreign languages...and of getting tourists to visit his father s shop.
Moroccan Folktales
Folktales collected from Teuan, Al-Huceima, Taza, Fes, Marrakesh, and Tahanout. Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal bonds and earthly wishes, these are mesmerizing stories to be savored, studied, or simply treasured. Varied genres include anecdotes, legends, and animal fables, and some tales bear strong resemblance to European counterparts, for example Aamar and his Sister (Hansel and Gretel) and Nunja and the White Dove (Cinderella). All capture the heart of Morroco and the soul of its people. In an enlightening introduction, El Koudia mourns the loss of the teller of tales in the marketplace, and he makes it clear that storytelling, born of memory and oral tradition, could vanish in the face of mass and electronic media.
Stencils: North Africa Morocco
Children discover and explore the rich heritage of ancient cultures around the world through fascinating myths, legends, festivals, and stories of the culture. Detailed maps and vivid illustrations show how various people lived and what they accomplished. Each book in this popular series contains five easy-to-do art projects- complete with unique punch-out stencils for making many of the traditional arts and crafts still produced today.