Huit jours: un enfant à Haïti

Edwidge Danticat

Scholastic Canada, 2011 - Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages

See below for English description.

Le tremblement de terre du 12 janvier 2010 a changé à jamais la vie des enfants haïtiens. Plusieurs d'entre eux ont vu des gens mourir. D'autres ont eux-mêmes frôlé la mort, comme Junior, qui est resté coincé dans les décombres de sa maison pendant plusieurs jours avant d'être secouru. Ce livre raconte son histoire extraordinaire, porteuse d'espoir et de rêves, de courage et de survie.

n Edwidge's story, Junior is trapped under his pancaked house for eight whole days.This timely, beautiful book is the perfect tool to help parents talk with their children about tragedy and hope. Based on a true story, author Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-American, weaves a story that is truly from the heart.

Original Title: Eight Days: A Story Of Haiti

About the author

Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and came to America at age twelve to live with her parents in Brooklyn. She studied French literature at Barnard College and received her M.F.A. from Brown University. Her work has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), her first novel and master's thesis, garnered Danticat a Granta Regional Award for Best Young American Novelist and was chosen as an Oprah Book Club selection, a singular honor. Her collection of short stories Krik? Krak! (1995) was nominated for the National Book Award. Along with awards for fiction from Seventeen and Essence and the 1995 Pushcart Short Story Prize, Danticat was chosen by Harper's Bazaar as "one of 20 people in their twenties who will make a difference," and by the New York Times Magazine as one of "30 Under 30" people to watch. Her second novel, The Farming of Bones (1998), concerns a massacre in Haiti in 1937. EDWIDGE DANTICAT est l'auteure de nombreux livres qui lui ont valu des prix, dont Breath, Eyes, Memory, un choix du club de lecture d'Oprah; Krik? Krak!, mis en nomination pour le National Book Award; et Huits jours. Edwige est aussi récipiendaire du MacArthur Genius Grant. Elle vit avec sa famille à Miami, en Floride. Edwidge Danticat is the author of many award-winning books, including Untwine, an NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Literary Work; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah's Book Club pick; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award nominee; Brother, I'm Dying, a National Book Critics Circle winner and Huit jours. She is also a recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant. Edwidge lives with her family in Miami, Florida. Alix Delinois is a young Haitian-American artist/illustrator living and working in New York. He is the illustrator of MUHAMMAD ALI: THE PEOPLE'S CHAMPION by Walter Dean Myers and MUMBET'S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE by Gretchen Woelfle. Alix is a graduate of the Pratt Institute and received his Masters in Art Education from Brooklyn College. He is an art teacher in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Huit jours: un enfant à Haïti
• Author: Edwidge Danticat
• Illustrated by: Alix Delinois
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Scholastic Canada, 2011
• ISBN: 1443106747, 9781443106740
• Length: 32 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Historical / General