This days-of-the-week lift-a-flap book reveals the wondrous ways a mother arranges the food on her child’s plate to create objects and scenes that spark the imagination. But at the end of the week, it’s Mother’s Day. Now it’s the child’s turn to create a special plate. What will it be?
| Rashin Kheiriyeh is an award-winning artist, author, and animation director who has illustrated over eighty children’s books internationally, including Saffron Ice Cream, which she also wrote. She won the Sendak Fellowship Award in 2017 and the Bologna Book Fair Ragazzi Award in 2009. Rashin was born in Khorramshahr, Iran, in 1979. Since she was a little girl, her great passion was to become an artist. The beauty of Persian rugs and her interest in astrology inspired her to write and illustrate Bahar, the Lucky. She now lives in Washington, D.C., where she teaches art at the University of Maryland and enjoys illustrating for The New York Times, Google and many amazing publishers around the world. |
Whether for toddlers to point and name, or preschoolers ready to discuss their likes and dislikes on the food front, this ebullient work will be at home in any collection.
—School Library Journal Reviewer
