![]() ![]() The book is aimed at readers between ages 4 and 8. Using a simple vocabulary, it features watercolour illustrations, overlaid on which are "gold embellishments" and "bronze foiled swirls". The book is written in the first person from the perspective of Malala Yousafzai, and documents her as a child, with a desire for a magic pencil to solve issues in her life images depict her childhood home in Swat Valley. The front cover, other than Kerascoët's illustration of Yousafzai as a child, was designed by Sarah J. French illustrators Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset, known together as Kerascoët, provided the artwork for the book, and Farrin Jacobs served as editor. Malala's Magic Pencil was published on 17 October 2017 by Little, Brown and Company in the U.S., and Puffin Books in the U.K. Yousafzai also had to assist in "choosing the artists, figuring out how to express everything in pictures, and deciding if the art felt accurate-down to the cracks in the wall of our home." In an interview, Yousafzai says that writing the book was an "intense" process, involving a lot of work looking up dates and fact checking. ![]() Malala's Magic Pencil was inspired by Shaka Laka Boom Boom, an Indian television series about a young boy who owns a magic pencil. Yousafzai decided to write a picture book as "many young children are interested in my story" and she wanted them to "see that even one person's actions can create change" In October 2016, it was reported that Yousafzai was writing a picture book to be released in autumn 2017. ![]() In 2013, Yousafzai co-wrote her memoir I Am Malala with Christina Lamb, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for two weeks in 2014, a youth edition of the book was published. She continued to rise to fame and speak out for the rights of girls at age 17, she became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate by winning the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. She was first sent to a hospital in Peshawar, and later to one in Birmingham. On 9 October 2012, a member of the Taliban shot Yousafzai as she was taking a bus from school to her home. Yousafzai was revealed as the author of the blog in December 2009, and as her public profile rose, she began to receive death threats. Following the blog, she was the subject of a New York Times documentary Class Dismissed, and spoke out for female education in local media. At age 11, Malala Yousafzai began writing an anonymous blog for BBC Urdu, detailing her life in Pakistan under the growing influence of the Taliban. Born in Swat Valley in Pakistan on 12 July 1997, she was raised by parents Ziauddin Yousafzai and Tor Pekai Yousafzai alongside two younger brothers Khushal and Atal. Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist. ![]()
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