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The playgrounds of Babel
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Grobler, Piet, illustrator.
Published
Toronto, ON : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, [2019].
Format
Book
ISBN
9781773060361, 1773060368
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Lexile measure
540L
Status
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Published
Toronto, ON : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, [2019].
Language
English
ISBN
9781773060361, 1773060368
Lexile measure
540
Notes
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.
Target Audience
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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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lawson, J., & Grobler, P. (2019). The playgrounds of Babel . Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lawson, JonArno and Piet, Grobler. 2019. The Playgrounds of Babel. Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lawson, JonArno and Piet, Grobler. The Playgrounds of Babel Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lawson, JonArno,, and Piet Grobler. The Playgrounds of Babel Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2019.
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