Story got wings -book will be pubelished at Mikkola school, Lyyra building (Lyyranpolku 2) Vantaa September 1st at 4 pm. Welcome!

Story got wings -storybook tells about friendship and co-operation between three schools: Mikkola School from Finland, Arethabeng School in South Arica and Namutuni School in Namibia are friendships schools with common interest to story crafting. For this book we have collected story craftings from these three schools.

Friendship school activity between Finnish Mikkola School and South African Arethabeng School has been going on for several years. Co-operation that started with exchanging of letters, drawings and photos started to have new forms little by little. Year 2006 we published a story crafting book Tunne kieleni - Tseba leleme la ka which contains story craftings from South African and Finnish children. Then we made a movie together: Our Own Movies is a movie about rights of the children and it was published year 2008.

Co-operation got new forms when year 2008 Mikkola School got a new friendship school from Namibia, Namutuni School in Windhoek. The new Friendship started with a story crafting workshop which was held in Namutuni School and was arranged by Mikkola School and Arethabeng School. Once again we got new story crafting friends.

This is how a new story exchange between three schools started: Finnish, South African and Namibian children started to exchange stories with each other. The children told the stories in their own language: Finnish children in Finnish, South African in North Sotho and Namibian in Oshindonga. First the stories were translated into English which made it possible to translate them to all the languages spoke on the friendship schools. Children also illustrated their stories and for most of the stories we were able to include the photo of the child.

This four-language storybook is made out of the material we collected in this exchange. The reader gets kind of a box seat: he gets a chance to peek into the world of children living in different cultures. In these stories adventures of the children, lions, reindeers and snowflakes tell in their own way about the things that are important to children and also what kind of things preoccupies their minds. Through the medium of the stories cultural differences come out but also many things that are common to all the children in the world.

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More information: Maiju Tykkyläinen, Mikkola School
maiju.tykkylainen(at)vantaa.fi, 050345 5563

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