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They stay where I left them, sitting together, keeping an eye on me: and when I reach the top of the mountain, let out a great cheer.

After Boutaghrar, it took a different road and we passed some fascinating villages … Tabrhan, Hadida and Olar.Particularly enjoyed the depictions of the dog and cat and of some of the clothes, surprisingly with the latter, not at all surprised by the former. These two intersecting stories are not exactly mirrors of each other so I don’t know that it’s got an ideal title, though the author’s note at the end does explain it, and I enjoyed seeing the inhabitants and scenery in the two settings: the Valley of Roses in southern Morocco and Sydney, Australia, the latter being the author-illustrator’s home. I love learning about other cultures and this is a unique way to show that while both cultures are different, they still partake in the same things. These worlds, as depicted in my project, couldn’t be further apart, yet with the showing of the parallel lives of the two families in my story, we see a simple truth.

The Moroccan desert landscape is often very pink, as is the colour of the plaster or mud of their dwellings. In this work, it is important to have each character wearing the same coloured garments throughout, so they can easily be identified: particularly as I often show just hands and arms and the character’s colour is the only thing that identifies them. It was this that decided me to stay and explore this area further, rather than travel further south: it has all the ingredients I am looking for! In the process of trying to be authentic and checking the details within my story, I have more and more interesting interactions with Berber people. One of them wades across the river to me, when I sign to her I am headed for Agouti, she beckons I should remove my shoes and socks, she then takes my hand and steers me around the rock face.

Meanwhile, in a small village in Morocco, a boy and his family go through their own morning routines and set out to a bustling market.

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And when a project is finally finished, invariably I feel a need to take off on an adventure that importantly is quite opposite to the project I’ve been working on. Jeannie Baker is the author and illustrator of a number of children's picture books, including the award-winning Where the Forest Meets the Sea. In this book, we follow a day in the lives of two children and two families, one in Australia and one in Morocco, North Africa, from the rising of the sun and early morning until the last rays of sunlight disappear over the horizon as both families gather for their evening meal. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives.The region of the Valley of Roses was a trade route of various tribes further north and west around the Imilchil and Taznakht area. The book follows two boys, (the boy on the left lives in Sydney Australia and the one on the right lives in Morocco) as they go about their day.