Great Lives in Graphics: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is a graphic retelling of Gandhi’s achievements, passions and impact on the world. This colourful snapshot portrays his life as a shy small boy with average school grades who grew up to be one of the most influential people in the history of the world. A man without title or property who wore little more than a few pieces of cotton but who was respected by the powerful and loved by millions.

But did you know that he was married at 13? Or that he was educated in Victorian London? Did you know he was jailed for a total of six years? Gandhi’s life was packed full of surprises and remained unpredictable to the very end. Along the way, the British Empire, religion, vegetarianism and the making of a Hollywood blockbuster are among the many topics connected to Mahatma Gandhi, the ultimate influencer.

This book includes:

• 250+ fascinating facts
• An accessible format for young readers
• Fact-packed infographics capture critical information
• Built-in colour-coded biography

Great Lives in Graphics reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolour, presenting 250+ biographical facts in a new and exciting way. It takes the essential dates and achievements of the person’s life, mixes them with lesser-known facts and trivia, and uses infographics to show them in a fresh visual way that is genuinely engaging for children and young adults. The result is a colourful, fascinating and often surprising representation of the person’s life, work and legacy. Using timelines, maps, repeated motifs and many more beautiful and informative illustrations, readers learn about the book’s main subject and the cultural background of the time in which they lived. AGES: 8 to 12