Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus, illus. by Evan Turk. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4424-2365-7
More than 10 years in the writing, this true story by Gandhi’s grandson and Hegedus (Truth with a Capital T) gives a personal window inside the peacemaker’s teachings. As a 12-year-old, Arun and his family come to live at an ashram where Gandhi...
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Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus, illus. by Evan Turk. Atheneum, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4814-4265-7
The team behind 2014’s Grandfather Gandhi returns with a second real-life story drawn from Arun Gandhi’s time at the Sevagram ashram with his grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi. After Arun tosses away a pencil nub in defiance of the ashram’s vow not to...
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Bethany Hegedus, illus. by Erin McGuire. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-245670-0
Before she was Harper Lee, she was Nelle, a child growing up during the Great Depression in Monroeville, Ala. In one early scene, Hegedus recounts how Nelle, aware of injustice at a young age, defended a boy on the playground: “Dressed in white...
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Bethany Hegedus, illus. by Tonya Engel. Lee & Low, $20.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-62014-587-6
Rhythmic words render a rich snapshot of Maya Angelou’s remarkable rise from a little girl riding a train to an uncertain destiny in Stamps, Ark., to a revered poet invoking words to welcome a new president in Washington, D.C. Her multifaceted life...
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Bethany Hegedus, illus. by Kyung Eun Han. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-264378-0
Growing up on a farm, the boy who would become the 39th U.S. president and a Nobel Peace Prize winner learned the value of hard work: “He brought water to the workingmen, hauled firewood, and tended to the hogs and chickens.” But because that farm...
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Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus, illus. by Andrés Landazábal. Candlewick, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1744-5
Inspired, per a creators’ note, by the work of Mahatma Gandhi and Maria Montessori, authors Gandhi and Hegedus propose a mind-expanding definition of peace in this gently insistent picture book. Opening lines interrogate the idea (“Where do we find...
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