Mali Under the Night Sky is Youme's third book. Her first book--Selavi, A Haitian Story of Hope--won the Jane Adams Peace Award in 2005. The American Library Association chose her next book--a graphic novel called Pitch Black--as a Top Ten Graphic Novel for Teens in 2009.
"Landowne smoothly includes several Laotian words and phrases in
this deeply felt and gently told story." —Publishers Weekly
"Today, December 7, marks the 69th anniversary of the attack on
Pearl Harbor, a date which will live in infamy,” as forever coined
by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Seven decades later, infamy lives on,
stealing childhoods, families, homes, lives. Now as another year
comes to a close, we pray for peace
again and again
again and
again
[Mali Under the Night Sky] is another hopeful, urgent
prayer …" —Book Dragon
"As heartrending as the story is, it also offers a glimmer of hope
in the love people have for their homeland and each other. Mali
Under the Night Sky is a soul-stirring picturebook about the
difficulties faced by wartime refugees, and deserves the highest
recommendation. " —Midwest Book Review, featured as Reviewer's
Choice
"With a spare first-person narrative and affecting watercolor-wash
illustrations, this biography by the author of Sélavi, That Is
Life: A Haitian Story of Hope (2004) tells of a family’s escape
from civil war in Laos." —Booklist
"Mali’s life as a young girl in Laos was surrounded by love, tight
family bonds and rich cultural experiences, but was also filled
with the hardship and trials of growing up in country torn by civil
war." —El Paso Scene
"Youme beautifully renders the true story of Malichansouk
Kouanchao, who, the flyleaf tells us, 'walked from Laos to Thailand
when she was five years old.' " —Papertigers.org
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