As it turned out, I needn’t have worried. well, to be perfectly frank I wasn’t sure what to expect.
To take this true story and give it the right tone and temper. That was a book that took a myth and turned it into a story that, to those not reading closely, could have been interpreted as fact. Now, I will admit that I walked into this book skeptical, because I was not the world’s biggest fan of her The Yellow Star. A Note from Kimeli himself at the end explains how all this came to be, and says that “These sacred, healing cows can never be slaughtered,” and will be kept under Maasai care in Kenya.Ĭarmen Agra Deedy has done a remarkable job with the text.
When the diplomat comes he is greeted with a full ceremony and is presented with not one, but fourteen cows. The elders agree, but invite a diplomat from the United States Embassy in Nairobi to visit the village. Kimeli tells the elders that he will offer his cow to the people of America. However, the events of September 11th are still with him, and later he tells his people the story of that horror of that particular day. Kimeli is Maasai and he has been studying in New York to become a doctor. One day a young man named Kimeli returns to the village where he grew up. That it succeeds as magnificently as it does is a credit to each one of its three creators. It was as if people didn’t feel inclined or capable of coming up with something new. These books all came out within a few years of one another and then nothing. Best of these was Mordecai Gerstein’s The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, the tragedy was merely tangential to the real story. The women who could not deliver their roses, and so created an impromptu memorial in Jeannette Winter’s September Roses. That adorable little fireboat that helped put out the blazes in Maira Kalman’s almost too cute Fireboat. The general consensus was to write titles that focused on the human moments that surrounded the tragedy. Picture books in particular took a great deal of interest in making the events palatable to young impressionable minds. In this the children’s literary world and the adult literary world were very much alike.
In collaboration with Wilson Kimeli NaiyomahĪs with any tragedy, in the years following the wake of September 11th a spate of books came out discussing, dissecting, and generally trying to make sense of what occurred.
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