Akira to Zoltán: Twenty-Six Men Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee, illustrated by Megan Halsey and Sean Addy [in Bloomsbury Review]
This welcome companion title to Chin-Lee’s Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World (2005) features child-size portions of world-changing, peace-toting, life-affirming men from Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa to U.S. Senator Hiram Fong to poet Octavio Paz to cellist Yo-Yo Ma and finally composer and music educator Zoltán Kodály.
Review: “In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: New & Notable Books,” The Bloomsbury Review, May/June 2007
Readers: Children, Middle Grade
Published: 2006
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