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Bandoola: The Great Elephant Rescue - Hardcover

Grill, William

 
9781838740238: Bandoola: The Great Elephant Rescue
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1838740236 ISBN 13: 9781838740238
Verlag: Bounce Marketing, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

In this moving tale based on a true story, award-winning William Grill's stunning illustrations show the majesty of Myanmar's forests and mountains, the backdrop to a heart-warming tale about empathy between humans and animals, and the strength that can arise from working together when the world is full of danger.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William Grill is a London based illustrator whose main interest lies in narrative illustration and publishing. He draws most of his inspiration from the natural world, and enjoys working in colored pencils and relief printmaking; his first book Shackleton's Journey won the 2015 Kate Greenaway award and was named one of the New York Times' Best Illustrated Books. It has been translated into over 14 languages. As well as running a weekly art club William has given workshops at The Design Museum, Southbank Centre, schools and universities.

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Myanmar is a country in South-east Asia, nestled between India, Bangladesh,China, Laos and Thailand. The country is famous for its vast forests, which provideimportant habitats for wildlife. Sadly, today many of these forests are being cutdown by humans to make way for farms or to use the wood to make buildings, paperor furniture. This is called deforestation.

From 1824 to 1948, Myanmar was a colony of the British Empire and the countrywas renamed Burma. On 4th January 1948, Myanmar celebrated its independence.Throughout this book, we will refer to it as Myanmar.

Before the British arrived, Myanmar had grown all its own food, mostly on smallfarms. Under British rule, it became a land of trade and export, selling goodsand resources to other countries all over the world. Although the country sawgrowth and development, most of the wealth was enjoyed by the British Empireand disrupted the way of life for the people of Myanmar. The negative impacts ofthe British occupation of Myanmar are still felt in the country today.

This story takes place when the British Empire profited by exploiting Myanmar’sland, which was rich in natural resources such as oil, gas, jade, rubies, tin and, mostimportantly for our story, timber.

Timber was Myanmar’s most valuable resource, especially the exotic hardwood teak.This rich nut- brown wood was highly valued because of its strength, waterresistance and beauty. It was perfect for building ships and other hard-wearingobjects. Since much of the world’s teak originated from Myanmar’s forests, it is nowillegal to sell it to other countries.

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Verlag
Bounce Marketing
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1838740236
ISBN 13 
9781838740238
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
80
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