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  <title><![CDATA[The Butter Man]]></title>
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  <default_description>While Nora waits impatiently for dinner, her father stirs up a story from his childhood.  During a famine Nora's grandfather must travel over the mountain to find work so he can provide food for his family.  While young Ali waits for his father's return, he learns a lesson of patience, perseverance, and hope.    Fold-art illustrations capture the Moroccan culture and landscape.    A Junior Library Guild selection.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">15</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">1</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2008</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Butter Man</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Alalou]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love books about other countries and especially books about how people survive hardship.  This book was about a boy living in Morocco during a famine (as told by the boy, now a man, to his daughter who believes she can't wait until dinner is ready to eat).  As the family was running out of food, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51133162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mouth-watering memories of fresh bread and butter and the crawling gnawing of famine's lack make a father's reflection on childhood hunger food for thought about patience, gratitude and luck.<br/><br/>You can listen in on our chat about this book on our <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/07/23/putting-peckish-in-perspective-the-butter-man//"> Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast...</a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28003303">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While waiting for the couscous to be ready and mother to be home, a father (Baba)tells his daughter the story of hard times one year in Moracco. Folk art style illustrations. Author's note tells of life today in Moracco.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 04 08:13:29 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderful book about family storytelling and food traditions.  While preparing couscous, a father tells a story from his childhood in Morocco when food was scarce and his mother would send him out each day with a scrap of bread to eat while waiting for the butter man who never appeared.  A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45350651">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77269949">
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    <body><![CDATA[When a little girl tells her father she's starving because he can't get dinner on the table fast enough, he relays a story of living in the hills of Moracco and actually not having enough food to eat.  Realistic, nice cross-culture story with intriguing illustrations. ]]></body>
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    <review id="43731807">
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice story about a Moroccan boy who lives during a famine and to distract him his mother tells him he must wait for the butter man to come, so he can get butter for the increasingly smaller pieces of bread she gives him. While he is people-watching, he forgets about how hungry he is. The story is to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43731807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  a bit texty but good story or a book a trip storyhour--morocco<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Essakalli's folk art paintings are wonderful]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Charlotte Zolotow award]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A father explains to his child the hardship of hunger during his childhood in Morocco. His mother helps him learn the art of patience and endurance by distracting him from his hunger in a search for the butter man. The story is told well, the setting in Morocco is unusual, and the pictures are wonde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34434000">more...</a>]]></body>
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