Mia’s Story: a Sketchbook of Hopes and Dreams

By Michael Foreman

Through this story, Michael Foreman captivates the reader with the story of Mia, a little girl living in a garbage dump with her family, a little dog named Poco, and a horse called Sancho. The sensitively drawn illustrations try to show the melancholy beauty of Mia’s existence as a poor young girl living in a remote village on the Andes Mountains.

The story is made even more poignantly beautiful, because it is about a real girl who the author met while travelling through Chile on his way to the Andes. Foreman takes your young person on a journey to a place far away, where people live a vastly different life than your child is used to. In the end, we learn that there is beauty and love even in the midst of poverty and hardship if we look past the surface. Mia is an inspirational character, whom your young person will be better off for having met.

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