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Emmanuel's Dream: the True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

Emmanuel's Dream: the True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

by Laurie Ann Thompson and Sean Qualls
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/01/2015

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Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah's inspiring true story--which was turned into a film, Emmanuel's Gift, narrated by Oprah Winfrey--is nothing short of remarkable.

Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people--but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams.

As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001, spreading his powerful message: disability is not inability. Today, Emmanuel continues to work on behalf of the disabled.

Thompson's lyrical prose and Qualls's bold collage illustrations offer a powerful celebration of triumphing over adversity.

Includes an author's note with more information about Emmanuel's charity.
ISBN:
9780449817445
9780449817445
Category:
People & places (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-01-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House Children's Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
40
Dimensions (mm):
292x237x9mm
Weight:
0.48kg
Laurie Ann Thompson

Laurie Ann Thompson is the coauthor of the Two Truths and a Lie series and author of several award-winning nonfiction books, including the teen how-to Be a Changemaker and Emmanuel's Dream, a picture book biography about Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, which was the recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award and was named an ALA Notable Children’s Book and a CCBC Choice, among other accolades. She lives with her family outside Seattle.

Sean Qualls

Sean Qualls is an award winning, Brooklyn-based children's book illustrator, artist, and author. He has illustrated a number of celebrated books for children, including, Giant Steps to Change the World by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis-Lee, Little Cloud and Lady Wind by Toni and Slade Morrison, and Before Jon was a Jazz Giant, for which he received a Coretta Scott King Illustration Honour.

His work has received two Blue Ribbon citations from the Bulletin of the Centre for Children's Books, where he was also cited for his "serious craftsmanship" and "original stlye". He lives in Brooklyn (where you can find him DJing on occasion) with his wife, illustrator/author Selina Alko and their two children, Ginger and Isaiah.

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