Once, in Marrakech...

‘New Indian Paper Art’ School Book

A few months ago, the Marrakech French School where our children go to school, was selling this little book to each classroom for maybe 5 dirhams each (like 10 cents) with no explanations.

The front and back covers are written in English with the last line on the back page being the best. Inside, tiny, complicated illustrations of paper crafts are fully explained in complicated steps written in French and Arabic. It is a book that a child would most likely never, ever use.

This little ‘Training Center’ handout is a bit of mystery to me and I suppose that is exactly why I love it.

Not sure how or why, this book of all books, made its way from India to the French school system of Morocco, but seemed like a nice happy accident of sorts, at least in my eyes.