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Nowruz Mobarak - Picture Books Celebrating Persian Culture and Nowruz, the Persian New Year
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Updated February 23, 2023
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Seven special somethings : a Nowruz story
Khorram, Adib
Paper Book
A picture book celebrating Persian New Year by award-winning author Adib Khorram Kian can't wait for Persian New Year! His family has already made a haft-seen, and Kian's baba and maman told him that all the things on it start with S and will bring them joy in the new year...
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Baba's Gift: A Persian Father's Love of Family
Ariana Shaheen Amini
Paper Book
Baba's Gift is a radiant celebration of a Persian father's love of family, from his boyhood in Iran to his new life in America. Baba enchants his six daughters with his stories, transporting them to his childhood in Iran as they play on the flowering vines of the Persian...
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My Persian Haft Seen: An Iranian Nowruz Tradition
Shirzad, Susanne
Paper Book
My Persian Haft Seen takes a charming look at the individual items that together create the ornamental display that is at the heart of the Nowruz holiday celebrated in Iran, and other Middle Eastern and Central Asian communities that celebrate the beginning of spring.
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Saffron ice cream
Kheiriyeh, Rashin
Paper Book
A joyous celebration of a girl's first family outing in a new country"With her colorful, exuberant folk-art illustrations and upbeat, friendly tone, Rashin makes a daunting cross-cultural leap seem as easy as a summer breeze." -- New York Times Book ReviewRashin is excited about her...
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The parrot and the merchant
Vafaeian, Marjan
Paper Book
Mah Jahan is a rich merchant who travels far and wide to trade her goods, and keeps countless colorful birds in cages. When leaving for India, she promises to bring back gifts for all her servants, and for her favorite talking parrot. All that the parrot requests is for her to go to the jungle,...
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In the meadow of fantasies
Muh?ammadi?, Muh?ammad Ha?di?
Paper Book
A young girl with a physical handicap gazes up at a mobile of spinning horses from her little pink bed in her room filled with leafy plants. As she watches them prance about, the tufted snout of a real live horse peeks through her bedroom door. Soon enough, our bright protagonist is off and...
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The monster in the bathhouse
Merabian, Sina
Paper Book
How to Catch a Monster meets Persian myth in this engaging picture book set in a lively Iranian bathhouse the day before the Persian New Year as three boys encounter something unexpected. The bathhouse is always busy the day before Nowruz. Everyone wants to be clean for...
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Count your way through Iran
Haskins, James
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Using simple text and colour illustrations, this is one in a series of books introducing young readers to other cultures. Children learn about many of the countries' unique features from cultural to industrial and architectural landmarks.
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