Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Picture Book Database Description An account of the resource The Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University (CPBD@MU) contains abstracts of over 5900 picture books for children, preschool to grade 3. Search over 1100 keywords (topics, concepts, and skills) to locate books with story lines adaptable to your curriculum or program. Picture Book Entry The elements of an Entry illustrator Illustrator of the Work Peter Sylvada ISBN The ISBN of the work 1-58536-211-5 pub_city Publisher City Chelsea, Michigan pub_year Publication Year 2007 abstract_author Author of the Abstract Abstract provided by Valerie A. Ubbes, 2025 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yatandou Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Whelan, Gloria Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Sleeping Bear Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007 Description An account of the resource A young Mali girl, Yatandou, is eight years old and sits with women in her village for three hours to pound sticks against the millet kernels to make one day's food. Yatandou takes her goat to graze. Her brother, Madou, goes into the thickets to bring back another goat lost from the village. He gets thorns on his clothes which Yatandou pulls off. Madou and their father work the onion fields in the scorching heat and blowing red sand. Mother makes two journeys to the well each day -- morning and night. On the eve of getting a machine to grind millet in the village, a woman comes from the city to teach the girls and the women. Father complains that the women will become idle. But Madou climbs the rocks and brings home a bag of bats from the caves. Mother makes bat stew for dinner, and Father is happy. african anger animals author's note body parts clothing desert education family feelings food garden goat grandparents hunger market money mood parents shadows sheep time travel trees village