Atlas/ geographic picture book for Malagasy school children

We have decided that the structure of the new Vakoka Vakiteny book, the atlas about Madagascar is going to be the six provinces. The target group is children in grade 5 (about 10 - 11 years old).

For each province we want to show pictures and explain about the major towns, agriculture and what people live from, environment and nature special for the area, and also about rivers, lakes and mountains in the province. For each chapter we also will have a small interview with a child living in a place special for the province (e.g. rain forest) with pictures.

The six Malagasy provinces are:

• Antananarivo with the big cities, vegetables (i.e. potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, etc.) and three major lakes.

• Toliara with the dry forest, goats, big mango trees, dry rivers and lack of water.

• Fianarantsoa with the rice fields, tea plantation, zebus and forest.

• Mahajanga with the hot climate, the sea, mangrove forest and the Betsiboka river and Kinkony lake.

• Toamasina with the rain forest, coffee and pepper plantations and the largest lake in Madagascar.

• Antsiranana with the famous island Nosy Be, vanilla plantations and the highest mountain in Madagascar.

We hope that we can make the six provinces known to the children through many photos and easy explanations. The work starts already the first week of September where we will go to Morondava and afterwards to Mahajanga to take pictures.