The All Pakistan Private School’s Federation announced that the book would be banned in its 152, 000 member institutions, stating that it disrespected Islam and could have a "negative" influence].[130] Pakistani investigative editor Ansar Abbasi described her work as "providing her critics something’concrete’ to prove her as an’agent’ of the West against Islam and Pakistan".
A children’s edition of the memoir was published in 2014 under the title I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World