Nahid Kazemi
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this contemporary reimagination of the Scheherazade tale, a young girl imagines herself zooming off in a toy airplane to confront an angry king, telling him countless stories and making him reflect on the kind of leader he really wants to be.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After her grandfather's death, a young girl explores her Baba Bazorg's house. As the girl wanders through the house, almost idly, her Baba Bazorg's house stands in for the man himself, with each object she describes standing as a touchstone to a memory, and each memory serving as a window into the relationship between the child and her grandfather. As she looks through its rooms, the things she sees and the object she touches bring to life memories...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Spring is here, and Bear is finally emerging from his hollow to greet his forest friends. Suddenly, he hears beautiful singing coming from above. It's Bird, practicing for the forest Opera! When Bird tells Bear that she's auditioning for a duet, Bear decides to try out as well, and asks if he can practice with her. Bird agrees, and as the pair rehearses their song, an unlikely friendship begins. After the audition, Bird is cast in the opera-but Bear...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning writer and storyteller, Karim Alrawi, draws on his deep knowledge of Arab culture to create original stories that are a feast for young imaginations. Told with intriguing details, the tales take young readers on a ... cultural journey and invite them to consider an Arab perspective. Each tale symbolically incorporates food and concludes with a traditional recipe, ... with colorful folkloric illustrations, making this a literary banquet...
Author
Language
English
Description
An old woman shares her home with a scruffy old dog, her best friend and constant companion. One fall day, they go for a walk and the woman throws sticks for the dog. She loves hearing the autumn leaves under her feet and the wind in the trees. She looks up at a crow in the sky and imagines what it might feel like to fly. As the wind comes up and the light begins to fade, she remembers playing outside as a child, never wanting to go in. Suddenly she...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Eunice immigre au Canada avec son père et sa
grand-mère. Sa mère ne peut pas les rejoindre
tout de suite. Eunice va alors ressentir un tel
manque qu'elle en perdra la parole. Incapable
de parler, elle vit un blocage total. On va suivre
Eunice dans son attente, dans son quotidien,
dans sa tête, dans ses dessins... Jusqu'au jour
o sa maman revient...
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