One Wish: Fatima al-Fihri and the World's Oldest University author-Julie Kagawa 2016 National Book Award Winner

2016 National Book Award Winner

Illustrator Wendy Leach creates a diverse cast of characters while using color as a visual cue to how kindness is able to spread

a toffee apple orchard guarded by a kind-hearted scarecrow

a boy finally decides to go in

One Wish: Fatima al-Fihri and the World's Oldest University author-Julie Kagawa 2016 National Book Award WinnerFrom the author of In My Mosque, M. O. Yuksel, this true life picture book biography of Fatima al Fihri, an extraordinary Muslim woman who founded the worlds oldest university, shows the importance of never giving up on your dreams and how we all have the power to change the world for the better. Fatima al Fihri loved to learn. She wanted to know everything, like how birds flew, why the sky was blue, and how flowers grew. But more than anything, she