Author(s): Elisa Carbone,Rukhsana Khan,Uma Krishnaswami
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 88
Publisher: Napoleon Publishing
Language: English
Date Published: 2008-11-01
Dimensions: 149.86 x 198.12 x 7.62mm
Publication City/Country: ON, Canada
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Illustrations: b/w illus

In the midst of global turmoil, with people of various faiths in major conflict, three friends--a Muslim, a Christian and a Hindu--decided to write a book. Many Windows is a book about young people who are friends despite their religious differences. It's a book about celebrations, that ultimately celebrates community. Many Windows is a collection of seven stories about six children who are in the same class at school, two white boys, a black girl, a Chinese girl, an Indian girl and a Pakistani boy. They are not necessarily friends, but they all come together in one commnunity at the end of the stories. Each story in the collection centres on a different celebration within the faith of that child. In the appendix, each of the celebrations is explained in more depth, as it is celebrated within that faith community: Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism. Each story represents a window into the life of the child, or, from a different point of view, the child's window looking out to the world.