Béatrice Lalinon Gbado is a
children's writer
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Children's ...
from
Benin.
She has written 31 children's books published by EDICEF, an
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of the French publisher
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, and by her own
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house Ruisseaux d'Afrique based in
Cotonou
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. She is married and has four children.
[http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/LalinonGbado.html "Béatrice LALINON GBADO", University of Western Australia/French, 1 August 2003]
Publication
* ''Les fruits''
* ''Les animaux domestiques''
* ''Les légumes et condiments''
* ''Les formes et les couleurs''
* ''Nos instruments de musique''
* ''Fleurs et papillons''
* ''Les maisons de chez nous''
* ''La cuisine de grand-mère''
* ''La mère et l'enfant''
* ''Ganvié''
* ''Danse mon petit, danse''
* ''Bovi, le petit cabri''
* ''Bovi et le miroir''
* ''Bovi sait compter''
* ''Toutou et le sachet''
* ''Kouaba, le village en sursis''
* ''Le rêve de Siba''
* ''Kaïvi, l’enfant placée''
* ''La petite carpe dorée''
* ''Le planteur et la bague''
* ''Course à pirogue''
* ''Kouaba, le village en sursis''
* ''Le rêve de Siba''
* ''Kaïvi, l’enfant placée''
* ''La petite carpe dorée''
* ''Le planteur et la bague''
* ''Course à pirogue''
* ''Le rat et le serpent''
* ''Chevaux fabuleux''
* ''La gifle''
* ''Le nénuphar de Bola''
* ''Mémé''
* ''Hêdomey''
* ''En marche vers la liberté Tomes1 et 2''
* ''La belle Dêbo''
* ''Les aventures de Biki''
English translations
* ''Beautiful Debo: a story from Benin'' Translator Ponce E. Kokou Zannou, Africa Christian Press, 2001,
References
Beninese women writers
Beninese women children's writers
20th-century women writers
20th-century Beninese writers
1984 births
Living people
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