Malo And The Merry-Go-Round

Malo is supposed to help his best friend, Poto, make pickles, but he hears that there is a new merry-go-round at the pond in the forest and that’s where he goes. Malo passes a wild boar who needs help getting a biting tick removed, but Malo is off in a rush. He meets a gang of turtles who want to play, but Malo lies to them and darts away. Next, he meets a cuckoo and again Malo is off in a huff.  Finally he slips on a dung beetle’s ball of dung, but still continues on his way. He gets to the merry-go-round and decides that it’s no fun playing alone. He should have stayed with Poto to make pickles and not hurt his friends. Malo rushes back to Poto’s house and the two best friends right Malo’s wrongs together. Bold watercolors complement this cute parable. mjw
Title: Malo And The Merry-Go-Round
Author: Maria Dek
Illustrator
: Maria Dek
Publisher
: Princeton Architectural Press, New York
Copyright
: 2020
Original Language
: French
Original Title
: Mais ou a file Malo la musaraigne?
Original Publisher
: Helium/Actes Sud. Paris, France
Original Copyright
: 2018
ISBN
: 978-1-61689-875-5
Hardcover pages: 34

Age range
: 3-7
Genre
: Picture Book
Author’s ethnicity
: Polish
Author’s residence
: Bialowieza, Poland
Illustrator’s ethnicity
: Polish
Illustrator’s residence
: Bialowieza, Poland
Subjects
: Forgiveness, Humor, Merry-Go-Round, Parable, Pickles, Selfishness, Values

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