MARY: A lot of physical space on the page? She takes up a lot of the space at the beginning. In the beginning, she is a more prominent figure with Emmanuel kind of in the background. She always stands out in some way, especially at the beginning of the story. The female characters, they all look the same except for the mother. There is no difference between the characters’ physical features. I don’t know if that is intentional by the illustrator. There is not a lot of variance within the tones. LESLIE: One thing that I notice looking through the illustrations is that the colors of the characters stay the same. MARY: The first story we discuss is Emmanuel’s Dream. Readers can find out what Emmanuel is doing to help people with exceptionalities by visiting the Emmanuel’s Educational Foundation and Sports Academy website.
Emmanuel continues to advocate for people with disabilities in Ghana. Determined to show others how he lives through his message, Emmanuel rode across Ghana in 2001 on a bike provided by the Challenged Athletes Foundation. He did chores, attended school and learned to ride a bike. Growing up, Emmanuel’s mother insisted that he learn to do things for himself. Emmanuel was born with “two bright eyes… two tiny fists… but only one strong leg…” (Johnson, 2015, n. We begin with a discussion of Emmanuel’s Dream by Laurie Anne Thompson and Sean Qualls.īased on true events, Emmanuel’s Dream tells the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah who rode his bike 400 miles across Ghana, spreading his message that “Disability is NOT Inability” (). The perspectives for this month’s My Take/Your Take clearly show that regardless of the depth of knowledge one has about picturebooks, everyone has their own take on its merits. Just say “award-winning book” to a group of children’s and adolescent literature enthusiasts and listen to the many, various takes each offer to the conversation! But what happens when preservice teachers in the novice stages of exploring children’s and adolescent literature share their take on award-winning picturebooks? This month Mary (an enthusiast), Christopher and Leslie (preservice teachers) share their takes on Schneider Family Award winning picturebooks.
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