“A tribute to my father’s country”: Tiago and the dream of words, the new youth book of Nîmes Aurélie Guarderas

Tiago. For example, the dream of wordsthe fourth work youth of Aurélie Guarderas, an original Ecuadorian, takes her readers (8-10 years) to the lands of her roots, on the other side of the Atlantic.

At the heart of the Andes Cordillera. However, in Quito in Ecuador, in this country where far from being compulsory the schooling of children is reserved for an elite, Tiago, 6, employed in a hacienda with his mother, befriends David, son of the owner. Deprived of school, the first dream of learning to read. The second goes there every day without measuring “a tribute my father’s country”: his luck …

Reading. door open to the field of possibilities – "a tribute my father's country":

This new work, which succeeds the series Zoé keys (Solea Éditions), Aurélie Guarderas wrote it back from a family trip to her father’s country. “In Ecuador, many children work. Mine. aged 10 today, was able to realize this immense chance that she had to live in France and to be able to go to school “, Says the author who, back from this journey, wanted to write on this country which is dear to him, of course, but also on injustice and social inequalities in a gentle way adapted to the little ones.

Through the colorful work. all in poetry ⁽¹⁾the young reader will follow the two children in the realization of a dream. Tiago’s to learn to read. In this book, reading finally becomes the bridge between two worlds. And even much more, an open door on “a tribute my father’s country”: the field of possibilities.

(1): Tiago and the dream of words – Solea edition – 15 euros.