![]() ![]() Written by artist Shahzia Sikander with award-winning author Amy Novesky, and featuring artwork, Roots and Wings is a colorful introduction to a multicultural perspective that will inspire young readers to use art and imagination to explore new worlds. Through art, Shahzia is able to create the different worlds she reads about, using her imagination to take her beyond the walls of the home she grows up in. Shahzia’s love for books leads to a fascination with illustrations, like the ones she sees in illuminated manuscripts and South Asian miniature portraits, and she discovers a talent for drawing. At the Catholic school she attends, she studies Western literature, and at home, her father regales her and her siblings with fantastical tales from a Russian storybook on animals. Growing up in a multigenerational, multicultural home in Lahore, Pakistan, where her family’s Muslim traditions are filled with food and rituals, Shahzia is surrounded by stories of all kinds. I would liken the experience of reading this book to falling into one of Frida Kahlo's paintings. ![]() Reading Level: ages 4-8 Me, Frida is a gorgeous lushous visual treat with a story that matches the quality of the illustrations. "Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander recounts how growing up as a tomboy in a multicultural home in Pakistan inspired her to become an artist Me, Frida by Amy Novesky Illustrated by David Diaz Abrahms, 2010. By Amy Novesky, Shahzia Sikander and Hanna Barczyk ![]()
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