Binta, la petite vendeuse
By: Boubacar 1er Diallo ; illustrations, Irina Condé
Contributors: Condé, Irina
Series: Je découvre-- les petits métiers de la rue; Je découvre (Conakry, Guinea)
Publisher: Éditions Ganndal
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Conakry, Guinée
Language: fre
Number of pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9782350450325; 9789995282042; 9782916101163
Subjects: Street children; Juvenile fiction; Child labor
Description: Seven-year-old Binta has never been to school; she lives with her parents and two sisters in a village.  One day a rich aunt comes to the village and asks for one of the girls to come back to the city with her.  Binta is chosen.  Her father asks that she be treated like one of the aunt's own children.  But instead Binta spends her days selling chilled candy and ginger-water in the marketplace, and is abused by her aunt.  She becomes sick and is finally returned to the care of her family.
Notes: "En Guinée, comme dans de nombreux pays africains, la vie est difficile.  En travaillant, les enfants participent à la survie de leur famille.  Aliou, Alpha, Binta et Sira font partie de ces enfants qui prennent des risques et courent des dangers pour quelques pièces de monnaie"--P. 4 of cover.