In kenya, books are delivered to remote villages by camel a. The camel bookmobile hardcover april 3, 2007 by masha hamilton author visit amazons masha hamilton page. Likewise, books checked out at another branch can be returned to the bookmobile. From school library journal adulthigh schoolfiona, a new york librarian filled with a sense of adventure and a desire to do good, heads to kenya to run the camel bookmobile. It offers everchanging collections of highdemand materials for all ages including bestselling books, recent and classic movies on dvd, audiobooks, music cds, magazines, and more.
Masha hamilton s long experience reporting all over the world informs her work. Bookmobile provides a better audiobook experience than any other app. Cultures clash in the camel bookmobile, good intentions may be misplaced or not. Donate your books to the camel bookmobile book talk. Three dromedaries trudged through dusty, arid northeastern kenya near the border with somalia to bring a library to settlements so tiny and farflung theyd become nearly invisible. The camel mobile library service lends more than 7,000 books to nomads in kenyas impoverished north east province, often because camels are the only means of crossing the inhospitable terrain.
A friendly feline and a feisty librarian merrily roll along in the newest bookmobile cat mysteryuntil murder stops them in their tracks. What is gained or lost by the use of multiple viewpoints to tell this story. Masha hamilton primary author only author division. Nature versus culture the narrator of the book the camel bookmobile by masha hamilton, struggles with bringing new ideas through her bookmobile to a traditional african culture.
In kenya, books are delivered to remote villages by camel a discovery hamilton has put into her fiction hopper. The bookmobile offers a collection for children and adults, including new movies and books, magazines, wifi hotspots, spanish language materials, and other popular items. Check the map below for bookmobile stop times and dates. This page uses frames, but your browser doesnt support them. The camel bookmobile masha hamilton dissertations et.
If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. The distance between us, 2004 named one of the best books of the year by library journal, the camel bookmobile, 2007 also a booksense pick, and 31 hours. The distance between us, 2004 named one of the best books of the year by library journal, the camel bookmobile, 2007 also a booksense pick, and 31 hours, named by the washington post as one of the best books of 2009. Masha hamilton is a united states journalist and the author of five novels. Come on out to the spirit lake steam at city park and see what the bookmobile is up to. It has regular stops in the community to make accessing materials more. Its about a camel book drive mobile library for kids who dont know how to read or write. In the camel bookmobile, fi travels to settlements where people have never held a book in their hands. It has regular stops in the community to make accessing. In 2006, she traveled in kenya to research the novel the camel bookmobile 2007, published by harpercollins. The unintended consequences filled this book and kept the reader turning pages. Ham a new york librarian who needs to do something meaningful with her life travels to kenya to start a traveling library that will bring literacy and knowledge to the tribes living in the african bush. Fiction and fact the idea for masha hamilton s new novel, the camel bookmobile harpercollins, came from a source close to home.
Its the summer season in chilson, michigan, and the town is packed with tourists ready for a fabulous fourth of july fireworks show. The distance between us, 2004 named one of the best books of the year by library journal, the camel bookmobile, 2007 also a booksense pick, and 31 hours, named by the washington. Donkey drawn electrocommunication library carts were being employed in zimbabwe in 2002 as a centre for electric and electronic communication. The bookmobile serves families who have difficulty getting to a library, children and teens in afterschool programs, and.
Masha hamiltons compelling third novel, the camel bookmobile, leaves no room for doubt. The camel bookmobile follows an american librarian who travels to the arid bush of northeastern kenya to give meaning to her life, but ultimately loses a piece of her heart. Dissertations gratuites sur the camel bookmobile masha hamilton. Fiona sweeney starts a traveling library in the remote bush of northeastern kenya. The camel bookmobile vibrates with the life and landscape of africa. Fiction and fact the idea for masha hamiltons new novel, the camel bookmobile harpercollins, came from a source close to home. Richly peopled, full of conflicts and surprises, the camel bookmobile made me think and feel in all the best ways.
Use your library card to check out and return items just as you would inside the library building. She would begin the morning with the speed and joy of a wellaimed spear, and that would make the moments fly faster until the camel bookmobile and miss sweeney arrived. Based in minneapolis, minnesota, bookmobile began as a design and typesetting production house in 1982 and started offering print services in 1996. Help us make a book about the 20012005 projet mobilivre bookmobile project, a touring exhibition of artist books and zines. The bookmobile also offers holds pickup, materials return, and staff information assistance. Hamilton was driving her three children to the library when her daughter told her about a camel bookmobile she had heard of in africa that once had a strict edict. Books checked out from the bookmobile can be returned to any branch. Patrons can register for a free library card while on the bookmobile. Our bookmobile is a mobile library that brings books, dvds, and more to locations throughout skokie five days a week. The homepage of novelist and journalist masha hamilton, author of staircase of a thousand steps, the distance between us and the camel bookmobile. It was a horsedrawn cart, and lent about 12,000 books during its first year of service. A compelling novel that shows how one life can change many, in spite of dangerous and seemingly immutable obstacles.
Bookmobile the jcpl traveling library visits community residences throughout the county to bring library materials and services to those with difficulty accessing a library location. Reflection on book the camel bookmobile essay example. Evocative, seamless, and haunting, the camel bookmobile is a powerful saga that challenges our fears of the unknown. The camel bookmobile by masha hamilton reading guidebook. Next stop kenya, to take a job as titular head of the camel bookmobile. A poignant story, one that raised questions about the world we know and how we onterpret our world. She has long romanticized africa, and she arrives determined but naive. Seuss, homer, tom sawyer, and hemingway to a largely illiterate and seminomadic populace. Although its the subject of popular novel the camel bookmobile, this is not some writers fantasy. Three dromedaries trudged through dusty, arid northeastern kenya near the border with somalia. A new york librarian who needs to do something meaningful with her life travels to kenya to start a traveling library that will bring literacy and knowledge to the tribes living in the african bush.
Kenyas children of the desert find that knowledge comes. Its based out of the town of garissa and extends as far as the town of wajir, over 150 miles away. Projet mobilivrebookmobile project is raising funds for the bookmobile book on kickstarter. The mobile library is a stateoftheart bookmobile that delivers books, music, movies and more to 24 neighborhoods in springfield and greene county each week. The camel bookmobile has been published in the uk, holland, italy, taiwan and china. The camel bookmobile follows an american librarian who travels to the arid bush of northeastern kenya to give meaning to her life, but ultimately loses a piece. For more information, reserves, or requests, call 9195600188 or fill out the online form.
She founded two world literacy projects, and has worked as head of communications for the us embassy in afghanistan and the ngo concern worldwide us. Patrons of the mobile library may request delivery of materials from other branch libraries and return materials checked out. Jul 04, 2007 basically, the author of the camel bookmobile masha hamilton and her colleagues are attempting to educate pastoral nomads in kenyas isolated northeastern province near the unstable border with. Bookmobile services the lane libraries the lane libraries. In this vivid, absorbing novel, masha hamilton transports her readers, even more surely than the camels do books, to the village of mididima and the struggle between traditional values and western education. What is gained or lost by the use of multiple viewpoints to. Basically, the author of the camel bookmobile masha hamilton and her colleagues are attempting to educate pastoral nomads in kenyas isolated northeastern province near the unstable border with. Masha hamilton used this service as a background for her 2007 novel the camel bookmobile. Spring 2020 marjune bookmobile schedule pdf check the map below for bookmobile stop times and dates. The bookmobile visits area schools, neighborhoods, local fairs and festivals with innovative programming to ensure all residents of san mateo county are lifelong library users.
It follows an american librarian who travels to africa to give meaning to her life, and ultimately loses a piece of her heart. The distance between us, 2004 named one of the best books of the year by library journal, the camel bookmobile, 2007 also a booksense pick, and 31 hours, named by the washington post as one of the best. Evocative, seamless, and haunting, the camel bookmobile. She had previously published the books staircase of a thousand steps 2001. The bookmobile houses 3000 items including books, large print, audiobooks, movies, and magazines. Cookbooks, novels, parenting booksthey all matter to fiona fi sweeney, a librarian from brooklyn searching for fulfillment atop a bookladen camel in the arid and dangerous bush of kenya. The bookmobile serves families who have difficulty getting to a library, children and teens in afterschool programs, and many new immigrant families. Here she acknowledges the mundane reality that things do fall apart, but it is effort and intention that make the meaning of things. Each family born at fort hamilton now receives a free ageappropriate board book, an information sheet on the importance of early literacy, and a. The camel bookmobile is masha hamiltons third book following her excellent 2004 novel, the distance between us.
The camel bookmobile made its first run almost a decade ago. Read the behind the book essay for powells bookstore photos show masha with the camel bookmobile in kenya during her trip in february 2006. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the cambridge english dictionary. Can the camel bookmobile be seen as an allegory for whats still taking place in the world today. It is a story that captures the riddles and calamities that often occur when two cultures collide. Deeply moving and thoughtful, with brave, wise characters with moral. Aug 26, 2007 hamiltons latest novel, the camel bookmobile, has a quieter provenance. Fiona sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she. Thousands of details have been considered in pursuit of a singular goal. When your project comes to bookmobile, it gets the benefit of thirtytwo years of knowhow. Based on actual events, the camel bookmobile tells.
The camel bookmobile by masha hamilton browsers corner. See more ideas about mobile library, books and little free libraries. Masha hamiltons long experience reporting all over the world informs her work. The camel bookmobile was conceived to educate the people of the bush in africa, to introduce them to teading and opening their minds to a greater world. In october 20, the bookmobile department used grant funding and additional funding from the friends of the library to start the raise a reader program in conjunction with fort hamilton hospital. The camel bookmobile is a triumphant tale of the indomitable human spirit similar in feeling and themes to the immensely popular slumdog millionaire. The bookmobile will join the spirit lake steam at city park in june. Read free book excerpt from the camel bookmobile by masha hamilton, page 1 of 2. Veteran reporter and twotime novelist masha hamiltons latest book takes readers into the remotest areas of the african continent to explore what happens when modern western traditions are introduced into the very fabric of a third world, traditionally nomadic society. The bookmobile will help celebrate at the spirit lake fourth of july parade. Deeply moving and thoughtful, with brave, wise characters with moral integrity. The first bookmobile is believed to have appeared in warrington, england in the late 1850s. Masha hamilton is currently considered a single author. Later, mobile libraries were installed inside vehicles and reached the height of their popularity in the mid20th century when they had become a part of americal life.
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