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The Market Lady and the Mango Tree
A sly merchant gets rich when she devises a contraption for collecting mangos, but a dream teachs her a lesson about greed
- GenresChildrens
1 pages, Hardcover
First published February 18, 1994
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Mary Watson
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March 25, 2009
Provides a little insight into life in west Africa. This book was written by Pete Watson while he served with the Peace Corps in Benin.
The Market Lady sees an untapped source of income, as children eat the mangoes that fall off the tree she sits under in the while selling food at the market. She begins collecting the mangoes and selling them for 1 cent each. But the children continue to collect them off the ground - so the Market Lady devise an innovative net that guides all the mangos to her. She begins collecting from all the mango trees in the market and selling to a mango jelly manufacturer - and the price of the mangoes goes up until only the jellymakers could afford them. A weird dream sequence ensues, with the end result being that the Market Lady exits the mango business, allowing everyone to return to eating them for free.
The plot/moral is a little weird "you can't earn a living by selling what's free" - would be disputed by Coke with their hugely lucrative bottled water business...
The Market Lady sees an untapped source of income, as children eat the mangoes that fall off the tree she sits under in the while selling food at the market. She begins collecting the mangoes and selling them for 1 cent each. But the children continue to collect them off the ground - so the Market Lady devise an innovative net that guides all the mangos to her. She begins collecting from all the mango trees in the market and selling to a mango jelly manufacturer - and the price of the mangoes goes up until only the jellymakers could afford them. A weird dream sequence ensues, with the end result being that the Market Lady exits the mango business, allowing everyone to return to eating them for free.
The plot/moral is a little weird "you can't earn a living by selling what's free" - would be disputed by Coke with their hugely lucrative bottled water business...
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April 30, 2011
Meh. I liked the pictures.
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