Malala Yousafzai (Author) Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist student and the youngest
person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. At age 15 she was shot by the Taliban for speaking
out for the rights of girls in her community to go to school. Malala recovered continued her
campaign and as co-founder of Malala Fund is building a global movement of support for girls'
education. malala.orgKerasco¿(Illustrator) Kerasco¿is the joint pen name of the French
illustrators comics and animation artists Marie Pommepuy (b. 1978) and S¿stien Cosset (b.
1975). A married couple they met while attending the Olivier de Serres art school.
Kerasco¿have worked on numerous bandes dessin¿ as well as children's books and in advertising.
Several of their comics have been published in English to critical acclaim. They were nominated
for the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel for Beauty and for an Eisner Award for
their comic Beautiful Darkness.
