Book meme- Day 11
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scripsi11. Secondhand bookshop gem
When I was a child and visited my Aunt U I always read The Rainbow Children, a book form her own childhood. It’s about a little black hen who has lost one eye, and therefore she is bullied by the other (white) hens. She decides to go out in the world to find her eye and meets a great variety of people and animal, most of them trying to be helpful, but no one who can help. One day she comes to a castle where she encounters a group of children from all over her world. After talking to them she realises it doesn’t matter if she only has one eye, the important bit is to like herself as she is. She loses the fabric she has worn over her hide to hide her lost eye and eventually becomes a mother hen to a brood of rainbow coloured children.
I loved the wonderful illustrations, by Piet Worm, and I was intrigued by the photo on the first page of a woman with a brood of children, clearly of different nationalities.
And if this rings a bell, the book was written by Josephine Baker and her husband Jo Bouillon. If you haven’t heard of her Rainbow Tribe, you can read some of it here. It was not as much of a fairytale as the book implies, but I didn’t know that when I was a child. And when I ran across the book in a used book store I was very happy to be able to have a copy of my own.
When I was a child and visited my Aunt U I always read The Rainbow Children, a book form her own childhood. It’s about a little black hen who has lost one eye, and therefore she is bullied by the other (white) hens. She decides to go out in the world to find her eye and meets a great variety of people and animal, most of them trying to be helpful, but no one who can help. One day she comes to a castle where she encounters a group of children from all over her world. After talking to them she realises it doesn’t matter if she only has one eye, the important bit is to like herself as she is. She loses the fabric she has worn over her hide to hide her lost eye and eventually becomes a mother hen to a brood of rainbow coloured children.
I loved the wonderful illustrations, by Piet Worm, and I was intrigued by the photo on the first page of a woman with a brood of children, clearly of different nationalities.
And if this rings a bell, the book was written by Josephine Baker and her husband Jo Bouillon. If you haven’t heard of her Rainbow Tribe, you can read some of it here. It was not as much of a fairytale as the book implies, but I didn’t know that when I was a child. And when I ran across the book in a used book store I was very happy to be able to have a copy of my own.
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