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Alia's Mission
Saving the Books of Iraq
By Stamaty, Mark Alan
- ISBN
- 978-0-37583-217-8 978-0-37593-217-5
- Publisher
- Knopf
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2005
Gr 3-6 A "New York Times Book Review" cartoonist recounts the heroic story of Iraqi librarian Alia Muhammad Baker in a swift, 32-page, comic-book format. Stamaty's soft gray-and-beige panels realistically capture Baker'...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2005
Cartoonist Stamaty uses graphic-novel panels to tell about the 2003 rescue of an Iraqi library's books in the midst of the war—the same story told in Jeanette Winter's The Librarian of Basra (rev. 1/05). A talking book character provides some background and narrates the story, describing librarian Alia Baker as a "real-life superhero." Stamaty provides more detail than does Winter about how Alia smuggled the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
