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Upon learning that the books with kids who look like her have been
banned by her school district, Kanzi descends into fear and
helplessness. But her classmates support her, and together—with
their teacher’s help—they hatch a plan to hold a bake sale and
use the proceeds to buy diverse books to donate to libraries. The
event is a big success; the entire school participates, and the
local TV station covers it in the evening news. Prodded by her
classmates to read the poem she has written, Kanzi starts softly
but finds her voice. “You have banned important books, but you
can’t ban my words,” she reads. “Books are for everyone.”
The crowd chants, “No banned books! No banned books!” and the
next week, the ban is reversed. Aya Khalil appends a note about how
The Arabic Quilt was briefly banned from the York, Pennsylvania
school system, and the backmatter also includes a recipe for
baklawa, the Egyptian pastry that Kanzi prepares for the bake sale.
We celebrate firemen and soldiers-and rightly so. But let's also
celebrate teachers, bus drivers, shop keepers, postmen and the
others who keep the world spinning around every day. And let's give
a nod to children, too-children who are kind and brave and help
each other. They're heroes too. In structure, flow and pitch, very
much like Pat Brisson's Before We Eat (ISBN 978 0 88448 652 7).
That night, Kanzi wraps herself in the beautiful Arabic quilt her
teita (grandma) in Cairo gave her and writes a poem in Arabic about
the quilt. Next day her teacher sees the poem and gets the entire
class excited about creating a "quilt" (a paper collage) of student
names in Arabic. In the end, Kanzi's most treasured reminder of her
old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one. This
authentic story with beautiful illustrations includes a glossary of
Arabic words and a presentation of Arabic letters with their
phonetic English equivalents.
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