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The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story / written by Aya Khalil ; illustrated by Anait Semirdzhyan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thomaston, Maine : Tilbury House Publishers, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780884487548
  • 0884487547
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Awards:
  • Arab American Book Award for Juvenile Literature, 2021.
Summary: The beautiful story of diversity follows a young girl named Kanzi whose most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one.
List(s) this item appears in: Arab American Heritage Month
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Picturebook Growing Up KHALIL AYA Available 33111010645683
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Picturebook Growing Up KHALIL AYA Available 33111010806335
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Kanzi's family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. Maybe that's why she forgets to take the kofta sandwich her mother has made for her lunch, but that backfires when Mama shows up at school with the sandwich. Mama wears a hijab and calls her daughter Habibti (dear one). When she leaves, the teasing starts.

That night, Kanzi wraps herself in the beautiful Arabic quilt her teita (grandma) in Cairo gave her and writes a poem in Arabic about the quilt. Next day her teacher sees the poem and gets the entire class excited about creating a "quilt" (a paper collage) of student names in Arabic. In the end, Kanzi's most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one.

This authentic story with beautiful illustrations includes a glossary of Arabic words and a presentation of Arabic letters with their phonetic English equivalents.

Includes a glossary of Arabic words and a presentation of Arabic letters with their phonetic English equivalents.

The beautiful story of diversity follows a young girl named Kanzi whose most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one.

Ages 4-7.

Arab American Book Award for Juvenile Literature, 2021.

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