Our World: Egypt Board Book – Picture Book
$8.99
- Width:
- 6.73 (in)
- Height:
- 0.75 (in)
- Depth:
- 6.50 (in)
- Gift wrapping:
- Options available
- Age Range:
- Infant - 3 Years;Preschool kids
- Author:
- Aya Khalil
- Format:
- Board Book
- Illustrator:
- Magda Azab
- Language:
- English
- Series:
- Our World
- Publisher:
- Barefoot Books
- Grade Level:
- preschool
Winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award in 2023 and featured on the Children's Book Council Hot Off the Press Reading List in 2022! Come along for a day in Egypt! There's so much to explore -- candy-colored boats, thumpingtablas and warm pita bread. Author Aya Khalil and illustrator Magda Azab draw on their personal experience of life in Egypt to create this appealing board book for very young readers.
About the Author
Aya Khalil is the award-winning author of The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story, which was an NCTE’s Charlotte Huck Award Recommended Book and a 2021 Arab American Book Award, among other honors; The Night Before Eid: A Muslim Family Story; and The Banned Books Bake Sale: A Protest Story. Aya holds a master’s degree in education and works as a freelance journalist. Her articles have been featured in The Huffington Post and The Christian Science Monitor, among other publications. She immigrated from Egypt to the United States when she was young and currently lives with her partner and three children in Northwest Ohio. Find her at AyaKhalil.com.