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AG Ford.
Malcolm X's daughter chronicles her father's childhood in this lengthy picture book biography. The horror of tragic events--the family's home being set on fire, the murder of Malcolm's father by the Ku Klux Klan--is tempered by (overwritten) descriptions of more mundane events, such as gardening or fishing. Realistic oil paintings show ordinary moments from an extraordinary figure's formative years.