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Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people—but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001, spreading his powerful message: disability is not inability.
- ISBN: 9780449817445
- Author: Thompson, Laurie Ann
- Illustrator: Qualls, Sean
- Published: 2015 , Schwartz & Wade
- Themes: Disability, Dream, School, teaching
- Descriptors: Africa, Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Ghana, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)
- No. of pages: 40