White Ravens’99/Belgium (French)/76418
Gelber, Eva (et al.) (text) 
 Dehaes, Serge (illus.)
 On ira à Mopti
 (We are going to Mopti)
 Bruxelles: Editions Labor, 1997. 34pp
 ISBN 2-8040-1166-6
 Interracial friendship - Solidarity
 A young boy from Mali lives in Belgium with his adoptive parents. He tells a schoolmate about his family
 in Mali, his home country and its catastrophic problems with weather and disease. The two children
 decide to be friends forever and go to Mali with medical aid teams when they are grown-up. The
 humanitarian message is dressed up here in funny, richly detailed illustrations, which naively capture the
 two different worlds. The children’s optimistic plan to create a better world is reflected in the final pages,
 which look as if they had done the painting themselves. (6+)

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