Gift idea: Buy a cookbook for a place someone wants to visit or has recently been to. You can learn a great deal about a place through its food. After going to Edinburgh this summer, I’m slowly working my way through this lovely new cookbook, Winter in the Highlands, and also dreaming of going to …
A Place for Us follows Layla and Rafiq as they immigrate from India and make a life in America. They raise their children Hadia, Huda and Amar with all the opportunities that America affords while instilling in them a reverence for their Muslim faith. Shifting perspectives in the novel lend itself to such a tender, …
Chloe and the Lion is one of the most clever, unique picture books I’ve seen. It starts out as a story about a little girl named Chloe who collects change to buy a ticket for the merry-go-round. It quickly becomes a heated argument between the book’s author and illustrator, but in the end, teaches us …
