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May 30, 1986 · In Tos - a real life village in Cameroon - the men live in square houses and the women live in round. The story behind this custom is sensitively retold through the eyes of a young girl brought up there.
May 30, 1986 · Tos is an actual village, on the side of an inactive volcano in Central Africa. It is the village in the book's title, where women dwell in round thatch-roofed huts and men live in square ones. This book tells the story of how the houses were so designated, in the aftermath of the volcano releasing its full fury on the village.
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The Village of Round and Square Houses. Ann Grifalconi. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, May 30, 1986 - Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages. The village of Tos is like no other village in the...
A story of life in an isolated Cameroonian village.In Tos - a real life village in Cameroon - the men live in square houses and the women live in round. The story behind this custom is...
A book by Ann Grifalconi, based on a true story of a village in Central Africa where men and women live in different shaped houses. The book explores the customs and culture of the village, and the impact of a volcanic eruption on their lives.
Ann Grifalconi’s bold, dynamic art and rhythmic storytelling recreate this world and make The Village of Round and Square Houses a perfect book for reading aloud.
