Bahram Rahman

A Sky-Blue Bench

Illustrator: Collins, Peggy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A young Afghan amputee matter-of-factly removes her own barrier to education, building a bench from discarded wood so that she and her ¿helper-leg¿ can sit through school in comfort.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pajama Press
• Seitenzahl: 32
• Altersempfehlung: 4 bis 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 258mm x 237mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781772782226
• ISBN-10: 177278222X
• Artikelnr.: 61679887

Autorenporträt

Bahram Rahman was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and grew up during the civil war and the Taliban regime. He earned a medical degree at Kabul Medical University and a master's degree in public policy at the University of Erfurt, Germany, while also working as an activist in Afghanistan in the areas of gender equality and youth political participation. Bahram came to Canada as a refugee in 2012, and today he is a senior policy advisor at the Ministry of Health in Ontario. His first picture book, the New York Times -reviewed The Library Bus, documents the barriers to education experienced by girls in war-torn countries and their resilience and ingenuity in overcoming them.