Can You Find My Eid Presents? Synopsis
With vivid illustrations and a heartwarming story, this picture book is the perfect Eid gift!
It's the evening before Eid, and Hana is helping her mum lay the table. Hana loves the colourful decorations they've arranged around the house! But there is still much to do, so when Hana's mum asks her to get the Eid presents ready to take to Nani's house the next day, Hana is at the ready to help! There's just one problem: where are the Eid presents?
With a gentle search-and-find element running alongside the story, this gorgeous picture book is a wonderful introduction to Eid. Written by award-winning author of Boy, Everywhere, AM Dassu. With heartfelt illustrations by Junissa Bianda.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780702323812 |
| Publication date: |
14th March 2024 |
| Author: |
A. M. Dassu |
| Illustrator: |
Junissa Bianda |
| Publisher: |
Scholastic |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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About A. M. Dassu
A. M. DASSU is the internationally acclaimed author of Boy, Everywhere and Fight Back, which have collectively been listed for forty-six awards, including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Carnegie Medal, The Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction and the inaugural Week Junior Award.
She is a director at Inclusive Minds, which is an organisation for people who are passionate about inclusion, diversity, equality and accessibility in children's literature; a patron of The Other Side of Hope, a literary magazine edited by immigrants and refugees, which serves to celebrate the refugee and immigrant communities worldwide, and one of The National Literacy Trust's Connecting Stories campaign authors, aiming to help inspire a love of reading and writing in children and young people.
A. M. Dassu grew up in the Midlands dreaming of becoming a writer but studied economics instead and worked in marketing and project management before realising her dream. She writes books that challenge stereotypes, humanise the 'other' and are full of empathy, hope and heart. Her previous book, Boot It! was a bestselling £1 World Book Day 2023 novel. She has donated a part of her advances to Baca, a UK charity that supports young people who arrive in the UK alone seeking asylum, and to Syrians in Idlib, who lost everything once again due to the devastating earthquake in 2023.
Photo copyright Mark Waugh
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