The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1773061186 ISBN 13: 9781773061184

Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada, 2018

Synopsis

This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan.

Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city. Parvana's father -- a history teacher until his school was bombed and his health destroyed -- works from a blanket on the ground in the marketplace, reading letters for people who cannot read or write. One day, he is arrested for having forbidden books, and the family is left without someone who can earn money or even shop for food.

As conditions for the family grow desperate, only one solution emerges. Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy, and become the breadwinner.

Deborah Ellis's beloved novel has been adapted for film by Aircraft Pictures, Cartoon Saloon and Melusine Productions in association with Angelina Jolie's production company, jolie pas productions. The animated feature film, directed by Nora Twomey, will launch at festivals in fall 2017, with wide release in late fall 2017.

About this title

Review:

Middle East Book Award
Sweden's Peter Pan Prize
Hackmatack Award
Baia delle Favole Prize
Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Award
Rocky Mountain Book Award, finalist
YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." -- Malala Yousafzai, New York Times

"A great kids' book ... a graphic geopolitical brief that's also a girl-power parable." --Newsweek

..". an exceptional story that enlightens the reader about circumstances beyond comprehension and helps students understand that all of us in this global community share the same hopes, dreams, and fears." --Resource Links

"[The books in the Breadwinner series] are terrifying indictments of what war can bring to children and a powerful testament to the ingenuity and strength of young people in times of terror." --Book Links

..". a book ... about the hard times -- and the courage -- of Afghan children." --Washington Post

Book Description:

A beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film

About this edition

• Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1773061186
• ISBN 13: 9781773061184
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80