The Butter Man

By Elizabeth Alalou, Ali Alalou

Illustrators Illustrated by Julie Klear Essakalli Publisher Charlesbridge Imprint Charlesbridge ISBN

9781580891271

Awards and Honors NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2009, Geography/People/Places

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Nora can't wait to eat. Every Saturday, when her baba cooks delicious couscous for their family, Nora has to save her appetite until mama comes home. "But I'm staaarving!" Nora says one day. Then Baba tells her the story of the butter man. When Baba was a child in Morocco and his family had only a little bread to eat, his mother would send him outside to wait for the butter man to pass by, in hopes that he would share just a little fresh, sweet butter. . . . Author's note. Glossary. Full-color gouache illustrations.

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AR Level 4.3 AR Points 0.5 AR Ready No Canadian Rights No Dewey E Title alpha The Butter Man Category Independent Readers Pages Count 32 Summary As Nora waits for the couscous dinner Baba is preparing, she remarks that she is starved. This sets Baba reminiscing about a time of drought in the Moroccan village of his youth, when he was truly hungry. Mahalou had nothing to give him but a small portion of hard bread and no butter, so she would send him outdoors with his bread and instructions to beg some butter from a butter peddler if one should pass by—which never happened. But the waiting helped Baba through to better times, when Bahalou came home with food and the rains finally came again. Topics Family. Dinners. Couscous. Hunger. Morocco. Storytelling. Bread. Drought. Butter. Peddlers. Waiting. Village life. Impatience. Reunions. Rain. Abundance. SRC Level 6.600000 SRC Points 2.000000 Lexile AD830L Trim Size 9" x 9" Language English JLG Release Date Mar 2008 Minimum grade 1 Maximum grade 4 Reading level Elementary Format Print

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