Introduction: Tell Me the Story of Nelson Mandela by Mike Mintz

During the Pandemic, my-then-three-year old had trouble falling asleep in his bed. So we started taking walks every night in his stroller to put him to sleep.

One night he asked me about a portrait of Nelson Mandela that we have on our wall. I told him it belonged to his grandmother, who like Nelson, fought against a terrible thing called "Apartheid" in South Africa.

Then he said, "tell me the story of Nelson Mandela," and we made it up as we walked. He asked me to recite this story every night after that for more than a year.

This book is the result.

(Now we just need an artist.)