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crystal_reading's review against another edition
5.0
Paula begins this biography with an example of Muhammad Yunus and his mother sharing food with a mother and child. Muhammad Yunus grew up in a family that put a priority on helping others. In this biography, readers discover that he learned about others and wanted to help. He didn't just want to help for one day, but wanted to provide what others needed to make real change in their lives.
Ultimately, he started a bank that was able to lend small amounts of money to groups of people. The bank didn't hand out money alone, but also paired it with some financial instruction and guidance so that people could get out of debt and have enough money to eat and care for their families.
This will be a wonderful book to share with students for many reasons. It's a great biography and it touches on poverty, micro-lending, some of Bangladesh's history, and working together. This would be an excellent addition to a social studies class, but would also simply be a good read aloud at any time.
If you want to know more about the book and how it came to be, stop by some of the blogs that participated or will soon be participating in the Twenty-two Cents blog tour http://paulayoo.com/22-cents-december-2014-book-blog-tour-dates/. This is a fantastic book and I would highly recommend it for elementary classrooms and even higher.
Finally, the artwork is beautiful! Make sure to get your hands on a copy.
Ultimately, he started a bank that was able to lend small amounts of money to groups of people. The bank didn't hand out money alone, but also paired it with some financial instruction and guidance so that people could get out of debt and have enough money to eat and care for their families.
This will be a wonderful book to share with students for many reasons. It's a great biography and it touches on poverty, micro-lending, some of Bangladesh's history, and working together. This would be an excellent addition to a social studies class, but would also simply be a good read aloud at any time.
If you want to know more about the book and how it came to be, stop by some of the blogs that participated or will soon be participating in the Twenty-two Cents blog tour http://paulayoo.com/22-cents-december-2014-book-blog-tour-dates/. This is a fantastic book and I would highly recommend it for elementary classrooms and even higher.
Finally, the artwork is beautiful! Make sure to get your hands on a copy.
nerfherder86's review against another edition
2.0
Story of Muhammad Yunus and how he created the first microloan bank, in Bangladesh. Nice chalk pastel illustrations. Gives sources of quotes and a bibliography. Text a little dry.
backonthealex's review against another edition
4.0
When Muhammad Yunus was a boy growing up in Chittagong, Bangladesh, he witnessed a lot of poverty in this bustling city, on the streets and even at home, where his mother often gave food to hungry people who came to her door. But Muhammad was lucky, he lived in a two story house and was encouraged to go to school, and even join the Boy Scouts.
While still young, Muhammad began to notice that when people had just a few coins, it could feed a family for a week. His father had always told him to learn from the world, and so, when he traveled to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship, he saw how young college students like him were effectively demonstrating to against the Vietnam war.
While still in the US as a teacher, Muhammad began to organize rallies, too, calling for peace between Bangladesh and Pakistan, where fighting had broken out when British rule ended. When peace finally came, Muhammad went home. Now he was the head of the Economics Department at Chittagong University.
By then, Muhammad has accomplished much, but he wasn't done. He still saw poverty all around him. In 1976, he met a woman named Sufiya Begum. She and her children were very poor but she had to borrow money at a high interest rate from a moneylender in order to buy bamboo to weave her beautiful baskets. Paying back the loan left her with not enough money to feed her kids. It was a terrible cycle of poverty she and so many other women were caught up in.
Muhammad decided something needed to be done, so despite obstacles, he opened a new kind of bank, a microbank, that lent small amounts of money to women at low interest. The bank was called Grameen Bank, meaning village bank. What was different was that the borrowers were divided into groups and it was the group that borrowed and the group that made sure everyone in to paid back their individual loan. What a difference Muhammad's idea made in the lives of so many women and their children. So much of a difference that Muhammad was given a Noble Prize in 2006 for it. Not only that, but his banks were by now all over the world, helping other people like Sufiya.
What a wonderful job Paula Yoo has done writing not just the story of one man's life and how he helped change the lives of many other people, but also for bringing economic ideas to a level that young readers can understand without talking down to them.
Twenty-two Cents is a book every teacher or homeschooler will want to use to teach their students something about economics, about life in other countries and about how one person can make a difference. I thought how inspiring for kids to read about one man, one idea and a whole of lot of change for the better.
The pastel chalk illustrations by Jamel Akib add so much to the story. Done in a mixed palette of colors they at once reflect the richness of Bangladesh and the harshness of poverty.
Backmatter includes an Afterword, which should not be skipped, and a list of sources Yoo used for writing her excellent book.
Twenty-two Cents is a picture book for older readers you won't want to miss.
This book is recommended for readers age 8+
This book was sent to me by the publisher, Lee & Low
This review was originally posted on Randomly Reading
While still young, Muhammad began to notice that when people had just a few coins, it could feed a family for a week. His father had always told him to learn from the world, and so, when he traveled to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship, he saw how young college students like him were effectively demonstrating to against the Vietnam war.
While still in the US as a teacher, Muhammad began to organize rallies, too, calling for peace between Bangladesh and Pakistan, where fighting had broken out when British rule ended. When peace finally came, Muhammad went home. Now he was the head of the Economics Department at Chittagong University.
By then, Muhammad has accomplished much, but he wasn't done. He still saw poverty all around him. In 1976, he met a woman named Sufiya Begum. She and her children were very poor but she had to borrow money at a high interest rate from a moneylender in order to buy bamboo to weave her beautiful baskets. Paying back the loan left her with not enough money to feed her kids. It was a terrible cycle of poverty she and so many other women were caught up in.
Muhammad decided something needed to be done, so despite obstacles, he opened a new kind of bank, a microbank, that lent small amounts of money to women at low interest. The bank was called Grameen Bank, meaning village bank. What was different was that the borrowers were divided into groups and it was the group that borrowed and the group that made sure everyone in to paid back their individual loan. What a difference Muhammad's idea made in the lives of so many women and their children. So much of a difference that Muhammad was given a Noble Prize in 2006 for it. Not only that, but his banks were by now all over the world, helping other people like Sufiya.
What a wonderful job Paula Yoo has done writing not just the story of one man's life and how he helped change the lives of many other people, but also for bringing economic ideas to a level that young readers can understand without talking down to them.
Twenty-two Cents is a book every teacher or homeschooler will want to use to teach their students something about economics, about life in other countries and about how one person can make a difference. I thought how inspiring for kids to read about one man, one idea and a whole of lot of change for the better.
The pastel chalk illustrations by Jamel Akib add so much to the story. Done in a mixed palette of colors they at once reflect the richness of Bangladesh and the harshness of poverty.
Backmatter includes an Afterword, which should not be skipped, and a list of sources Yoo used for writing her excellent book.
Twenty-two Cents is a picture book for older readers you won't want to miss.
This book is recommended for readers age 8+
This book was sent to me by the publisher, Lee & Low
This review was originally posted on Randomly Reading
wordnerd153's review against another edition
3.0
Inspiring book about how and why Yunus created the microloan system. The pages are text-heavy and some of the concepts may be tricky for kids to grasp, especially if they don't have background knowledge about social justice and social reform. I don't think upper elementary and middle school students would seek this biography out, but teachers could use it as part of a unit on people who have positively changed the world.
raoionna's review against another edition
4.0
An important story, about microloans in Bangledesh, told through lovely images and informative, serviceable text.
chachacenteno's review against another edition
5.0
What an amazing biography! I can't wait to recommend it to the kids at the library.
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