Award-winning artist Nelson tells the story of Mandela, a global icon, in poignant verse and glorious illustrations. Readers will be inspired by Mandela' s triumph and his lifelong quest to create a more just world.

It is the story of a young boy' s determination to change South Africa and of the struggles of a man who eventually became the president of his country by believing in equality for people of all colors. Kadir Nelson tells the story of Mandela, a global icon, in poignant verse and glorious illustrations. When the government began to keep people apart based on the color of their skin, Mandela spoke out against the law and vowed to fight hard in order to make his country a place that belonged to all South Africans. He decided then that he would work to protect them. In Johannesburg, the country' s capital, Mandela saw fellow Africans who were poor and powerless. One day when Nelson Mandela was nine years old, his father died and he was sent from his village to a school far away from home, to another part of South Africa. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Hardcover. He is also the author and illustrator of the acclaimed Baby Bear.

Nelson's authorial debut, We Are the Ship, was a New York Times bestseller, a Coretta Scott King Author Award winner, and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor book. Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange won a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. He received Caldecott Honors for Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, for which he also garnered a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and won an NAACP Image Award. Kadir Nelson won the 2012 Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor for Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans.

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