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Hope Is an Arrow

The Story of Lebanese-American Poet Khalil Gibran

by Cory McCarthy and Ekua Holmes
Hardback
Age range: 6 to 9 years old Publication Date: 03/05/2022

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A lyrical biography of Kahlil Gibran by award-winning writer Cory McCarthy, with glorious illustrations by Caldecott Honoree and two-time Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner Ekua Holmes.

Before Kahlil Gibran ever put his pen to the page to eventually become the world's third best-selling poet of all time, he was Gibran Khalil Gibran, a child immigrant from Lebanon who had a secret hope. That hope sprung from his experiences in Lebanon, where Christians and Muslims crashed like two strong headwinds, and in Boston, where the wealthy crashed with the poor. His secret hope: to connect all people from around the world, bringing them together despite their differences and beliefs.

But how could he bring people together when he himself felt fractured? He was Kahlil Gibran, the Arab American who struggled to make a home in America, and he was Gibran Khalil Gibran, the Lebanese boy who missed his home, struggling to hold on to his roots.

Kahlil found his answer in writing poetry. Kahlil's secret hope, shot like an arrow from Lebanon, feathered by the spirit of American independence, became a book called The Prophet. And even today, Kahlil's words continue to fly around the world, bringing people together.

ISBN:
9781536200324
9781536200324
Category:
Social issues (Children's / Teenage)
Age range:
6 to 9 years old
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
03-05-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
40
Dimensions (mm):
287x248x10.16mm
Weight:
0.57kg
Cory McCarthy

Cory McCarthy is an acclaimed, best-selling author of books for young readers. They studied poetry and screenwriting before earning an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where they now serve on the faculty. Like Kahlil Gibran, their family emigrated from Lebanon and settled in New England.

Ekua Holmes

Ekua Holmes is the illustrator of two previous picture books: Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford, for which she won the John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award and a Caldecott Honor; and Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, and Marjory Wentworth, for which she received the 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. Ekua Holmes lives in Boston.

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