UN / QUEEN RANIA AL ABDULLAH

Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan launches a new children's book on cross-cultural understanding entitled "The Sandwich Swap." UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:05
• Production Date: 27 April 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: FINE ARTS; LITERATURE; MUSIC
• Geographic Subject: JORDAN
• MAMS Id: U100427e

Description

STORY: UN / QUEEN RANIA AL ABDULLAH
TRT: 2.05
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 27 APRIL 2010, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior UN building

27 APRIL 2010, NEW YORK CITY

2. Tracking shot, Queen Rania and the Secretary-General walk in
3. Pan left, children
4. Med shot, Queen Rania greeting children
5. Pan left, children
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“It starts with two sandwiches: one peanut butter and jelly, the other of hummus and pita. I’d like to taste that humus and pita. It ends with … well, I won’t spoil the surprise. And all I will say is that it shows how easily people can misunderstand each other and how easily they can hurt each other’s feelings; and sometimes causing real conflict. In other words, it shows what often happens in the real world.”
7. Pan right, children
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Queen Rania Al Abdullah, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Eminent Advocate for children:
“Would you like to try a bite of my peanut butter and jelly? Selma grinned; sure, why not? Would you like to try my humus and pita? Lilly laughed. I’d like that. On the count of three? OK. On the count of three; one, two, tree. Hmmm, Yummy!”
9. Various shots, Queen Rania meeting with the Secretary-General.”

Storyline

A cultural food fight between “gooey” peanut butter and jelly and “icky” hummus sandwiches leads to global acceptance – at least at the grade-school level – in a colourful picture book launched today (27 April) by Queen Rania of Jordan and United Nations (UN) Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Eminent Advocate for children.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, at the launch of "The Sandwich Swap" at the UN Bookshop in New York, described the plot of the children’s story saying that “it shows how easily people can misunderstand each other and how easily they can hurt each other’s feelings” sometimes leading to real conflict, as “often happens in the real world.”

Queen Rania read the story to a group of children assembled for the launch. The book tells the story of best friends Lily and Salma who play together until one day Lily blurts out that Salma’s hummus sandwich looks yucky, and Salma says her friend’s peanut butter and jelly looks and smells gross.

The story ends, spoiler alert, with a visit to the principal’s office. Shamed, the girls taste each other’s sandwiches, only to discover the strange sandwiches are quite tasty, and organize a special international event at the school, illustrated with a special three-page fold-out.

The book, co-written by Kelly DiPucchio and illustrated by Tricia Tusa, is inspired by the usually hummus and pita sandwich-toting Queen’s own introduction to peanut butter and jelly by a peer in nursery school.