Pub Date: April 3, 2018
Dewey: B
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.30" H x 10.60" L x 8.40" W ( 0.40 lbs) 40 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography and Autobiography | Social Activists | Cultural and Regional | Business and Economics
Description:
A biography of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who revolutionized global antipoverty efforts by developing the innovative economic concept of micro-lending.
Brief description:
Jamel Akib is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in several picture books as well as in numerous museum and gallery shows in England, including several Best of British Illustration exhibitions. A full-time illustrator of English and Malaysian ancestry, Akib now lives with his family in Salisbury, England.
Review Quotes:
"A heart-gladdening testament to pulling your own suspenders tight, with a little help from your friends." -- Kirkus Reviews
"[T]his eye-opening picture book provides an affecting look at how simple ideas can change the world." -- Booklist
"This hopeful and inspiring tale sheds light on an important but little-known subject who made a huge difference." -- School Library Journal
"In detailed and inviting prose, Yoo shares the story of activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Yunus... Akib's grainy, jewel-toned chalk pastels contrast a sense of scarcity and deprivation with one of warmth and humanity. Yoo makes the significance of Yunus's contributions understandable, relevant, and immediate." -- Publishers Weekly
Put this one on your "must read" list! -- Sally's Bookshelf
This inspiring biography of Bengali "Banker to the Poor" Muhammad Yunnus begins with precepts he learned in his childhood. Yunnus's path to becoming an economist known for small, low-interest loans to the impoverished (micro-credit) and to receiving the Nobel Peace Prize is backdropped by striking chalk-pastel illustrations in vibrant colors. -- The Horn Book
Best Children's Books of the Year - Bank Street College of Education
Best Multicultural Books - Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature
CCBC Choices - Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Delaware Diamonds Awards - Diamond State Reading Association
Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Award - California Reading Association
Freeman Book Award for East and Southeast Asian Children's Literature Winner - National Consortium for Teaching About Asia
Junior Library Guild Selection
Notable Books for a Global Society - International Literacy Association (ILA)
South Asia Book Award - South Asia National Outreach Consortium