Jeanette Winter is a celebrated picture book creator whose acclaimed works include The Snow Man; The Little Owl & the Big Tree: A Christmas Story; Oil; The Secret Project; and Diego, all written by Jonah Winter, and her own Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia; Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan; and Our House Is on Fire: Greta Thunberg’s Call to Save the Planet, which has been translated into twenty-one languages.
"Winter celebrates the importance of education, and the reminder to
Western children that it is a privilege worth fighting for is a
powerful one."--The Horn Book Magazine
"The personal nature of the story individualizes the conflict in
Afghanistan...and the quiet, tightly focused approach helps make
the situation accessible. The notion of school as a privilege
revoked rather than a mandatory sentence may also elicit some
thoughtful kid consideration."--The Bulletin of the Center for
Children's Books
“Winter’s precise acrylics tell this story in matter-of-fact
images: Taliban soldiers coming down the mountain to the city of
Herat, “where art and music and learning once flourished”; a girl
called Nasreen sitting at home, silent since her parents
disappeared, forbidden to attend school; the grandmother, who tells
the story, taking her to a secret girls’ school in a private home.
The students’ brightly colored headscarves stand in for their
bravery and eagerness to learn.”--The New York Times Book
Review
"Winter tells another powerful story, based on true events, of an
individual activist whose singular courage brings social
change...Winter artfully distills enormous concepts into spare,
potent sentences that celebrate Herat’s rich cultural, Islamic
history...even as they detail the harrowing realities of Taliban
rule. And in her signature style of deceptively simple compositions
and rich, opaque colors, Winter’s acrylic paintings give a palpable
sense of both Nasreen’s everyday terror and the expansive joy that
she finds in learning."--Booklist
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