A Taste of Freedom: Gandhi and the Great Salt March

This intimate tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and the spirit of nonviolent protest is framed as an elderly man’s reminiscence of meeting the renowned figure and joining the 1930 Salt March. Kimmel shows Gandhi as an enigmatic, almost deific figure: “A small man becomes visible through the dust. He is very old like my grandfather, but he walks so fast I wonder if he is flying.” The boy then explains the impetus for the march (“Before the Raj came, we gathered our own salt in India.... Now my mother must buy her salt from the British”), and an afterword provides additional context about the march and Gandhi himself. Ferri’s watercolor and colored pencil illustrations are blanketed in a soft, lemony haze, mirroring the narrator’s recollections through a veil of memory. Ages 6–9. Illustrator’s agent: The Bright Agency. (Feb.)