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Daniella's Ravanne
Daniella's Ravanne
Daniella's Ravanne


Daniella's Ravanne

Original title : La ravanne de Dianella
Collection : First Novel
Author : Amarnath Hosany
Illustrator/Photographer : Joëlle Betsey-Maestracci
Age : 8+
Category : Novels 8-11+
Format : Paperback
Pages : 48
120 x 185 mm
9.50 €

Content : Daniella will turn 12 soon. She learns that there will be a ravanne (a large tambourine-like instrument) show in her village. Music overwhelms her and tug at her heartstrings. But how can she learn ravanne when all the boys around her think that this instrument is exclusively for them?

Thanks to her taste for music, Daniella will start a quest for more equality and freedom, and will become friend with an old musician...

Selected by the United Nations' African Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Book Club in 2021. The novel is now part of the reading list recommended for schools, libraries ... by the United Nations for the African continent on gender issues.