11/22/2023 0 Comments Brave girls pakAfter reading Winter’s book, ask students to consider how these two children used their voices to advocate for children’s rights. Unquestionably, Malala Yousafzai and Iqbal Masih are heroes. With clear, concise prose, Winter’s book takes the painful but hopeful stories of these children’s lives and provides us with an opportunity for critical reflection and social action in our classrooms.īravery: Notice and Name. Represented as two separate tales, Malala’s and Iqbal’s stories symbolically meet in the middle in an awe-inspiring double-page spread where the two children are found flying kites at the top of a mountain in a fictional shared moment. In 1995, when he was only 12, Iqbal was shot and killed while out riding his bike. After years of bonded slavery, Iqbal became an international advocate for the freedom of children. Attacked on her way to school and shot in the head, Malala has been fighting for the rights of girls to an education before she was in her teens and continues to do so today. Beautifully crafted with digitally rendered art, Winter shares how two children who transcended their youth and spoke out injustice in their homeland of Pakistan. A master of picture book biographies, Jeanette Winter shares two stories that sensitively explain but more importantly inspire in her book Malala: A Brave Girl from Pakistan/Iqbal: A Brave Boy from Pakistan. As the world faces and responds to violence rooted in social and political forces, it can be challenging to know where to turn to explain such events to young people. Stories can help explain the unspeakable, inspire bravery, and conquer fear.
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