Couscous and the Friends of the Desert

By Brigitte Paturzo

Couscous likes wandering alone in the desert. One day, he kneels down on the bank of a pond. On the other side, there is a frog looking at him. “Frogs are fat tadpoles,” he thinks. However, a dangerous snake appears and threatens to bite him. Couscous can’t move and is not proud of himself, especially after having made fun of a frog.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brigitte Paturzo
• Release date: Apr 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311153050

Brigitte Paturzo

Every winter for almost twenty years, Brigitte has traveled riding her camel through the Sahara of southeast Algeria and southwest Libya. She has learned Arabic, and Tamahaq, the Tuareg language. Her passion for both cultures comes from her childhood in Algiers.The desert inspires her. It is very present in her book “Between stones and skies in the Libyan Desert”, as in her stories for children, in which she relates the adventures of a young camel, Couscous, and which are illustrated with her own gouaches.Brigitte lives and works in Nice, France.

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