The playgrounds of Babel
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Contributors
Grobler, Piet, illustrator.
Published
Toronto ; Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, 2019.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Status
Oliver La Farge - Children's Picture Books
Fiction Lawson, J
1 available
Southside - Children's Picture Books
Fiction Lawson, J
1 available

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Published
Toronto ; Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, 2019.
Language
English
Lexile measure
540

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Description
"This unusual, thought-provoking story begins with an old woman telling a tale to a group of children in a playground. One of the boys can't understand what she is saying, so another offers to translate. The old woman's tale is inspired by the Tower of Babel story: In the days when everyone spoke the same language, the people built a tower to reach God. But God was annoyed and sent a dragon to destroy the tower, then created new languages for everyone so that they couldn't understand each other. Fortunately, two little girls find a way to communicate through song. Told entirely through dialogue, moving back and forth between the old woman's tale and the exchange between the two boys, this original, sometimes funny story raises questions about what divides us and what brings us together, in spite of all our differences -- it is the power of song in this case, which ultimately brings hope."--,Provided by publisher.
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540L,Lexile
Target Audience
Decoding demand: 83 (very high),Semantic demand: 75 (high),Syntactic demand: 82 (very high),Structure demand: 79 (high),Lexile
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Issued also in electronic format.

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