Room to Read

Room to Read

As part of the Room to Read workshop for local Jordanian writers, publishers and illustrators, 600,000 Arabic books were created to give out to public schools and refugees in Jordan for free. Dina Fawakhiri was amongst the illustrators trained in this 5 day intense workshop. As a result, her illustrations of the Arabic book "Goodnight Mother", written by Hiyam Abu Al Adas and published by Majdalawi Masterpieces , was one of the many distributed to children across Jordan. "Yesterday we brought our vibrant children's books to The Collateral Repair Project, where Iraqi, Yemeni, Sudanese, Palestinian and Syrian families huddled for storytelling time! Every public school in the country will receive 4 copies of these books with the remainder going to local refugee camps and disenfranchised communities. Thank you to everyone who helped make these 600,000 books happen."
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Talias book

A book made from the heart

2 years ago in the middle of Covid - my sister got pregnant and moved to Canada. She would send us updates of how big my niece was getting in her belly.. the size of a lemon! An avocado! A cabbage! Until the day she was born. Those 9 months inspired me to write this book - in my colloquial/ broken/ often made-up Arabic, about my gorgeous baby niece and how she grew in my sisters belly to become the unique adorable bright cuddly baby girl she is ❤️ we love you Talia.

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She's an Avocado!

I also matched her growing stages with what the embryo can do at the time. For example when the baby is the size of the avocado is when they kick the most!

It's a Boy :)

And because we want to include all babies, we decided with the publisher Kalila wa Dimna to create a boy version.