Free the Children: A Young Man's Personal Crusade Aginst Child Labour - Hardcover

Keilburger, Craig; Major, Kevin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060175974 ISBN 13: 9780060175979

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1998

Synopsis

In a memoir illustrated with many photographs, an extraordinary fifteen-year-old Canadian recounts his globe-trotting efforts to better the conditions of child laborers, a quest that has brought him face to face with the world's leaders. 35,000 first printing.

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Review:

Not since Anne Frank has a child so effectively borne witness to the madness of adult reality."-- "Kirkus Reviews"Reads... like an adventure story.... With a controversial, vivid style that is mercifully free of jargon or cynicism, Kielburger introduces readers to the children and reformers he met during his trip through Bangladesh, Thailand, Nepal, India, and Pakistan."-- "Christian Science Monitor"The tales are gripping, the atrocities shocking, and the children inspiring.... The prose is natural, engaging, and very much Mr. Kielburger--he writes as he speaks. The stories of the enslaved children are exciting, very real, and often unutterably sad."-- "National Post"Graig has become a Pied Piper, inspiring students in hundreds of schools across the United States and Canada to join his crusade."-- "New York Times

Synopsis:

In April 1995, 12-year-old Craig Keilburger read an article about a Pakistani child who, at the age of four, was sold into slavery by his parents. For the next six years, he was shackled to a carpet loom, tying thousands upon thousands of tiny knots, twelve hours a day, six days a week. For this he was paid three cents a day. Amazingly, his will was never broken; he escaped and began efforts to reveal the horrors of child labour. But when he began to gain international attention, and Pakistani carpet manufacturers began to lose orders, he was shot and killed. Craig Keilburger contacted human rights organizations around the world, and with a small band of his friends from school he formed Free the Children. To see firsthand the working conditions of South Asian children Craig journeyed through the world of slums, sweatshops, and back alleys where so many of the children of South Asia live in servitude, often performing the most menial and dangerous of jobs. This is the chronicle of the continuing work of one young activist and the human rights organization he founded at the age of 12, to bring attention to the worldwide abuse of children's rights.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0060175974
• ISBN 13: 9780060175979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240