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May 30, 1986 · A young girl wonders why it is that her town is divided into two types of houses – round and square. She goes about her daily routine at first, but then her grandmother tells her the story. The volcano in the town erupted one day, and left only a square and round house left.
May 30, 1986 · This beautiful book tells the story of a village where the women live in round houses and the men live in square houses. The origin story of this unique arrangement is told through the eyes of a little girl growing up in the village (which is based on an actual place in Central Africa).
Apr 24, 2013 · The village of round and square houses by Ann Grifalconi. Publication date 1986 Topics Folklore -- Cameroon Publisher Little, Brown Collection ...
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...
The Village of Round and Square Houses. Ann Grifalconi. Little, Brown, 1986 - Africa. A grandmother explains to her listeners why in their village on the side of a volcano the men live in square...
A young girl from the West African village of Tos movingly tells how the men came to live in square houses and the women in round ones.
