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Ibou Min 'and turtles Bolilanga, Franck Provost, Delphine Jacquot

Editions Thierry Magnier, 2009. From 8 years .

On Bolilanga Island, Indonesia, villagers protect turtles long ago. Since that day distance where Ibou Min ', a young woman loved by all for his kindness, became itself a magnificent turtle ...

Ibou Min 'was a young woman m Arie fisherman turtle. T lways smiling, very close to his son (single) and available to help others, she was loved by all. In his village, everyone called him "Ibou" which means "mother".

One day when she and her son went fishing, they disappeared at sea shortly afterwards saw the villagers on the island of Bolilanga, turtles face similar to that of Ibou Min ' and followed by another turtle younger.

Although times of famine, turtles (formerly so rare) became increasingly numerous. The villagers then realized that their deceased children were now with Min, who watched over them.

Since then, over one fisherman Bolilanga not touch the turtles. They have become sacred.

Excerpt: " Today, this village in the Gulf of Tomini, it is taboo to hunt or even to disturb a turtle, and some former perpetuate the custom. In each of their crossings they lay open a coconut on the beach Bolilanga . "

The illustrations are delicate, they carefully transcribe what we could imagine the spirit of Asian and Oceanian that emerges from this book very well illuminated. The format of this very long album accentuates even more precious appearance. Pity that the typography is not itself worked a little more, but this is not the essence of what is learned from this book through a legendary story, defended or at least inform us first and foremost the need to protect the environment and rare species.

Author Franck Provost spent a year on the Indonesian island with a population sensitive to the preservation of fauna and flora. A novel parallel of this story was written for older children, under the name turtles Bolilanga .

Some educational tracks on this album are available for download on the site Editions Thierry Magnier ( clicking on the title of this message for direct access ).


Eye Elsewhere s has already presented Paradiso (published by The Edun) Franck Provost and Carole Chaix .

Delphine Jacquot is an illustrator. Born in 1982, she trained as a cartoonist and layout artist-three years in Communication at the Beaux-Arts de Rennes. She took advantage of an Erasmus exchange to move towards the illustration youth and received his diploma in Fine Arts Brussels.