Lalla, a young girl living in the Muslim part of West Africa, greatly desires to wear a beautiful malafa like her mother, sister, and cousin, but when she asks those women of authority in her life to have one, they tell her about all the tradition and Islamic religious significance of the malafa and why it is not just any lady who can wear one.
year: 2013, 2018
call number/section: 1000
subjects: coming of age, fiction, clothing and dress, muslims, mauritania, fiction, sahara, africa, west, juvenile fiction, juvenile fiction, bildungsromans, picture books
Editions
Cunnane, Kelly
Schwartz & Wade Books (2013)
In Mauritania, West Africa, an Arab girl who wants to wear a malafa, the veiled dress worn by her mother and older sister, learns that the garment represents beauty, mystery, tradition, belonging, and faith.
Schools: 21
Cunnane, Kelly
Lalla, a young girl living in the Muslim part of West Africa, greatly desires to wear a beautiful malafa like her mother, sister, and cousin, but when she asks those women of authority in her life to have one, they tell her about all the tradition and Islamic religious significance of the malafa and why it is not just any lady who can wear one.
Schools: 8
Cunnane, Kelly
Dragonfly Books (2018)
An Arab girl of the Sahara who wants to wear a malafa, the veiled dress worn by her mother and older sister, learns that the garment represents beauty, mystery, tradition, belonging, and faith.
Schools: 4