The people there are affluent, while Manjhi’s village struggles with hunger. Manjhi lives on one side, where nothing grows. One determined man brings two villages together with a hammer, chisel, and an iron will.ĭeep in the heart of India, a mighty mountain separates two villages. No source notes or bibliography are offered author’s notes on each child summarize the facts. Malala's kite string is still in her hand, and her kite reaches toward Iqbal. Iqbal's kite string has just left his hand his kite drifts away toward Malala. In a poignant double-page spread at the middle, edge-to-edge art shows each child atop a mountain. Iqbal’s and Malala’s stories are presented as two separate tales, back to back.
As she often does, she distills the stories to their essences, conveying with very few words the fearlessness and the hope wielded by these children. Winter, in impressive command of the page with her spare text and calm, rich, digitally rendered art, offers this difficult material unapologetically. Malala, who survived being shot by the Taliban gunman who boarded her school van, continues to use her voice for justice. Malala Yousafzai began her public advocacy for the rights of girls to education before she was in her teens. He’d spent several of his young years as a bonded slave in a carpet factory before he escaped to become an international advocate for the freedom of children. Iqbal Masih was only 12 in 1995 when he was shot and killed while riding his bike. A master picture-book artist introduces quite young readers to two astonishing heroes of the world born in Pakistan.
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