
As a child in Pakistan Malala made a wish for a magic pencil that she could use to redraw reality She would use it to give gifts to her family to erase the smell from the rubbish dump near her house to sleep an extra hour in the morning As she grew older Malala wished for bigger & bigger things She saw a world that needed fixing & even if she never found a magic pencil Malala realized that she could still work hard every day to make her wishes come true This beautifully illustrated picture book tells Malala&s story in her own words for a younger audience & shows them the worldview that allowed her to hold on to hope & to make her voice heard even in the most difficult of times