Winter, Jeanette
Malala: A Brave Girl from Pakistan and Iqbal: A Brave Boy from Pakistan
Beach Lane (Simon and Schuster), 2014.
$17.99 PICTURE BOOK Content: PG.
Malala is a young girl who wants to go to school. When the Taliban start to threaten her and
her classmates, they keep going to school.
One day Malala is shot in the school van by the Taliban and she is
rushed to the hospital. Malala had a
long road to recovery, but still speaks out that girls should have the
opportunity to receive an education.
Iqbal is a young boy who speaks out against child labor. He was enslaved at the age of four so his
parents could have money. He worked many
years in a carpet factory, but when he was ten he found out it was illegal to
be enslaved, so he told all the boys in this factory. Iqbal continued to tell people that it was
illegal to be enslaved and eventually he was killed for voicing the truth about
freedom.
This is a book that has two
sides-one tells Malala’s story and the other side tells Iqbal’s. Both children were from Pakistan and showed
that they could make a difference. The
illustrations are basic and simple, but the reason I put it as PG is because the
Taliban feels very menacing throughout and Iqbal is killed (it shows his bike
behind a building with a blast of light to symbolize the shot). This would be a simple introduction to child
labor and the fight for education.
EL-ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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