The second reason, however, is far more important.
😂 So trust me when I say that having one of my books be made into an audiobook makes me squeal for joy and bust out my happy dance! Themes: Award Winner, Award Winner: Youth Media Awards 2022, Discrimination: Abilities, Diverse Abilities: Physical, Immigrant: EducationĬharacter’s New Arrival/New American Status: In Home Countryīook Creator(s) Connection to the Community Represented: Written with Cultural Advisors Click here for details about how we define our titles.I have some great news to share today! I’m thrilled to announce that Listening Library at Penguin Random House Audio will be producing an Emmanuel’s Dream audiobook edition!! This is super exciting to me for two reasons:įirst, I love listening to audiobooks! I listen when I’m walking the dog, driving, doing housework, basically anytime it isn’t practical to have my nose in a book. NOTE: Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah emigrated to the US and formed a nonprofit to change society by empowering people with disabilities.Ĭommunity Represented: Ghanaian/Ghanaian American Includes an author’s note with more information about Emmanuel’s charity.
Thompson’s lyrical prose and Qualls’s bold collage illustrations offer a powerful celebration of triumphing over adversity. Today, Emmanuel continues to work on behalf of the disabled.
He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001, spreading his powerful message: disability is not inability. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu YeboahĮmmanuel Ofosu Yeboah’s inspiring true story which was turned into a film, Emmanuel’s Gift, narrated by Oprah Winfrey is nothing short of remarkable.
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