Misè Misè 11 Contes Ivoiriens de la Comoè by Camille Lavoix and Vyara Boyadjieva
is a new children's book published by La Joie de Lire. Richly and wonderfully illustrated, it focuses the attention on the oral tradition of that sunny corner of the world, Kakpin in particular, reporting legends and fairy-tales that people love to tell orally to each other: they are extremely important and it is an universe that musn't be lost. In particular, these tales involve plants and animals and thanks to these ones we will discover why a certain animal act in a certain way, or why it is mutated with the time.
Some examples of what you will find?
Children will discover why hyena cries most of the time, but also why turtles at some point became animals in love for water; there is a funny story of a group of termites involving the daughter of a king and a king who wanted to set himself free of some wood...Maybe the most beautiful one is the fairy-tale of the antilope-cheval and why she is wearing a mask now.
The author of this book is Camilla Lavoix, journalist from the South-West: she collaborates with the BBC and A La Vanguardia, and she writes for Obs, Mediapat, Le Monde.
The illustrator of this book, Vyara from Bulgaria, studied in Bologna and Cambridge.
Highly recommended children's book.
I thank La Joie de Lire for the physical copy of the book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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