Read Out Loud🪻WELCOME UNCLE NOWRUZ by Rashin Kheiriyeh
Join us for a special Read Out Loud from internationally acclaimed, award-winning illustrator, author, and animator Rashin Kheiriyeh! Nane Sarma is the spirit of winter, and each year she looks forward to seeing her old friend, Uncle Nowruz. He travels everywhere to announce that spring is coming. But every time, she falls asleep before he gets there!
About the Book 📕
Brilliant Iranian-American creator Rashin offers her fun and fresh spin
on a classic Nowruz folktale.
Nane Sarma is winter herself, and every year she waits eagerly for her old friend, Uncle Nowruz. His job is to travel the land announcing the beginning of spring. But somehow, she always falls asleep before he arrives! This year, her three grandchildren will celebrate with her, so surely she will stay awake. But after the family shops for all seven items for the Haft-Seen table, finds beautiful new clothes, eats saffron ice cream and makes the traditional meal of fish and rice, Nane is knackered. Uh-oh . . .
A fun-filled romp through a favorite Persian holiday, sure to charm readers familiar with the Nowruz festival and inspire those for whom it is new.
“Nowruz, to me, is a bridge between past and present, between cultures and hearts—and, always, a new beginning.” –Rashin
📝🎨 About Rashin Kheiriyeh
Rashin Kheiriyeh is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning illustrator, author, animator, and painter with over 25 years of experience in publication and broadcasting. She has published 100 children’s books in countries including the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, the UAE, Ukraine, Turkey, Spain, South Korea, China, Brazil, India, and Iran.
Rashin has received 50 national and international awards, including a nomination for the 2023 and 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to children's literature. Her accolades also include the 2022 Anne Izard Storyteller's Choice Award, the 2021 Sheila Barry Award for Best Canadian Picture Book of the Year, SCBWI Bologna Scholarship award, the 2017 Sendak Fellowship Award in New York, the 2009 New Horizon Award (RAGAZZI) from the Bologna Book Fair, the 2011 Golden Apple Award from the Bratislava Illustration Biennial (BIB), and the 2009 Crystal Simorgh Award from the 28th FAJR Film Festival in Iran.
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