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“Malala A Hero for All”
Written by Shana Corey
Illustrations by Elizabeth Sayles
Random House, 2016
Quotes
On July 12, 1997, a tiny baby came kicking and screaming into the world. If the baby had been a boy, guns would have been fired in celebration. Gifts would have been piled into the baby’s cradle. The baby’s name would have been written in the family tree.
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But this baby was a girl. In the country of Pakistan, a girl’s birth is usually not considered a reason to celebrate. It’s not even worth writing down.
This baby’s parents were different, though. They named the new baby Malala, a famous heroine who had inspired an army with her words.
Malala Yousafzai’s father was a teacher and a poet and the principle of a school. He wrote her name on the family tree next to the boys and men who had come before her. And he taught her the story of Malalai.
Malala was only eleven years old. But she had watched her father speak out about girls’ right to an education. She’d read books about activists like Martin Luther King Jr., and Meena — a woman who had fought for women’s rights in Afghanistan. She knew she couldn’t wait for someone else to speak up for her.
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Maybe she had a kind of magic pencil after all.
My thoughts
I’ve finished reading “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini a week ago, and I’ve been thinking that I want to know more about the Middle East, like Afghanistan or Pakistan. Also, I’ve been interested in education (especially for girls) for some time. So I decided to read this book first. (Because the libraries in my city have only 2 books about Malala written in English, and this was the easier one…)
Now I want to chase her proudly. I want to know and learn more about the world around girls like her. Though it’s not mandatory, but I belive it’s more important than ever.
I’ll be reading “I Am Malala” for the next one (I already booked that one, by the way!). Can’t wait to dive into her journey, her thoughts, and her posture of overcoming!
