My Sneezes Are Perfect: Poems For Children (The Emma Press Children's Poetry Books) - Tapa blanda

Rizwan, Rakhshan; Samee, Yusuf

 
9781912915682: My Sneezes Are Perfect: Poems For Children (The Emma Press Children's Poetry Books)
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ISBN 10: 1912915685 ISBN 13: 9781912915682
Editorial: The Emma Press, 2021

Sinopsis

What’s your favourite food? Who’s your best friend? Have you tried to grow a rock? Aren’t beards weird? Did you ever move house and miss where you used to live? Didn’t a lot change when the pandemic started?

My Sneezes Are Perfect is a collection of poems in the voice of a small boy who wants to tell you about all the things he’s learning, all the time. During the book, he moves from the Netherlands to America and has to adjust to his new life there. Then Covid-19 hits and his world changes all over again...

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Rakhshan Rizwan works as an Acquisitions Editor. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Utrecht University. Her poetry pamphlet, Paisley (The Emma Press, 2017) was shortlisted for the Saboteur Award and the Michael Marks Poetry Prize. Her collection of children’s poetry, My Sneezes are Perfect (The Emma Press, 2021) documents the difficulties of moving countries, and living through a pandemic from the perspective of a young child. Her book Kashmiri Life Narratives: Human Rights, Pleasure, and the Local Cosmopolitan (Routledge, 2020) looks at how Kashmiri authors use innovative languages of happiness to do human rights advocacy. Her writing has appeared in Aaduna, Nimrod, Postcolonial Text and Blue Lyra Review, among others. She is on the editorial team of the children’s poetry journal Tyger Tyger Magazine. She is from Lahore, Pakistan, has lived in Germany and the Netherlands, and currently lives in the Bay Area of North California, US.

Yusuf Samee is 6 years old. He is a first-grade student at Twin Creeks Elementary School. He likes collecting rocks and leaves, growing vegetables, and playing with numbers in his mind. He was born in the city of Delft in The Netherlands and now lives in the Bay Area in California.

Benjamin Phillips is an artist and illustrator based in Hastings. From his studio by the sea he creates ceramics, paintings and illustrative work. Benjamin enjoys drawing, dogs and a cold beverage. Sometimes all at the same time. benjaminphillips.co.uk

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Editorial
The Emma Press
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1912915685
ISBN 13 
9781912915682
Encuadernación
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Ilustrador
Phillips Benjamin
Número de páginas
96
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