Canada
What is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa
What is the big water in the middle of Aboland Archipelago?
Gullkrona (golden crown)
What is the capital of Kenya?
Nairobi
What is the capital of Mongolia?
Ulaanbaatar
What is the capital of Peru? What do the people in Peru speak?
Lima, Spanish and Quechua
Which continent is Canada a part of?
North America
What is the capital of Finland?
Helsinki
What languages do they speak in Kenya?
English is the official language. The national language is Kiswahili.
What is the official language?
Khalkha Mongol
What is the capital of Thailand? What is the official language of Thailand?
Bangkok, Thai
What languages do they speak in Canada?
What part of the world is Finland a part of? (Hint: think about how far north it is in the world)
The Arctic Circle
What makes it hard for the people in the nomadic villages to get books?
The roads are impassable.
What is the name of the man who helped the children in Mongolia?
Mr. Dashdondog
What are the 3 projects that brings books to kids in Peru? (Hint: remember the Spanish names that the lady mispronounced)
El Libro Compartido en Familia, Fe Y Allegria, Aspaderuc
What is the weather like in Canada?
The northern parts have tundra, so they are really snowy and can be minus 50 degrees
What are the 4 languages spoken in Finland?
Finnish, Swedish, Lappish, and Romany
What do they use to bring books to people? How many days a week do they use this?
camels, 5 days a week
How did they get books to kids? What was the book tour called?
By minibus, amtaii nom (candy books)
How were books delivered to rural communities in Peru?
By wooden suitcases and plastic bags and wagons, or in coastal communities, it is by donkey cart
What is the program that Canada uses to get books from the library?
The Borrower-by-Mail program
By the book boat. The boat is called Kalkholm (limestone island). It can carry about 600 books.
What does the librarian set up when they get to the villages?
The library tent, wooden bookshelves, and grass mats for kids to sit on.
What are there 2 things that there are almost none of in this country?
illiteracy, technology
What is the program called in Thailand? What are 2 ways they use to bring books to people? What is the train called?
Books-by-Elephant, elephants and by train, Hong Rotfai Yoawachon (Library Train for Young People)