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Taghreed Najjar Nominated for 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Posted on December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 by alsalwa team

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Dec

Nearly 250 children’s book authors from 64 countries are up for the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, one of the most prestigious awards for children’s literature worldwide. The candidates were presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 11 by the jury chair Boel Westin. The three Arabophone authors on the list are: Jordanian-Palestinian author […]

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‘Koozy’: Etisalat-winner for ‘Best Production,’ A Story of Loss & Cats & Love reviewed by ArabKidLitNow!

Posted on November 14, 2018November 20, 2018 by alsalwa team

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ArabKidLitNow recommends Koozy (كوزي), which was shortlisted for the 2018 Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children’s Literature in three categories (best book, best illustrations, best production) and won the “best production” prize. This is a story of love and loss, friendship and honoring those who are gone, warmly and richly illustrated by Maja Kastelic. Since kids know better what they like, […]

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Watermelon Madness – a Review

Posted on February 20, 2018November 19, 2018 by Chouette Publishing

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Author: Taghreed al-Najjar Illustrator: Maya Fidawi Translator: Michelle Hartman Translator: Tameem Hartman Review Issue Date: March 1, 2018 Online Publish Date: February 19, 2018 Publisher:CrackBoom! Books Pages: 32 Price ( Hardcover ): $15.95 Publication Date: May 1, 2018 ISBN ( Hardcover ): 978-2-9247862-2-2 Category: Fiction Noura loves to eat watermelon all day, every day, but one night she discovers that there is […]

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Filling the Gap with Early Readers

Posted on October 27, 2016January 12, 2019 by alsalwa team

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It is always exciting for us as publishers when we launch a new book. Recently, we started a new series for emergent readers (Early Readers) in Arabic which we called “Al Dahnoun Series”. We were responding to feedback from our reader families and schools who felt that there was a gap that needed filling in […]

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The story behind “Grandma Nafeesa”

Posted on July 11, 2016September 28, 2016 by Taghreed Najjar

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The story of a special and different Grandma was in my “ideas” file for a long time. I would go back to it every now and then, tweak it here, tweak it there and then would leave it to move to something else. The book came to life again when we were moving to our […]

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New Established Library Day

Posted on April 28, 2016September 28, 2016 by Hadil Miqdadi

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Taghreed Najjar presented her latest story book “A Home for Arnoub” which comes with an interactive bilingual CD. The children watched the animated musical story and sang along with sad sad Arnoub and were happy when he finally found a new home with lovely Arnouba. Squeels of excited laughter greeted the mascot Arnoub who surprised […]

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Knock….. Knock who’s there?

Posted on December 23, 2015September 28, 2016 by Hadil Miqdadi

A Special Ramdan event was held at Hakawati Bookstore and Hamleys. Children and their parents braved the heat wave and came to listen to Taghreed Najjar read her story ” When the Doorbell Rang” published by Al Salwa Publishing House and illustrated by Reem Askari. The story is narrated by Nagham who welcomes Ramdan with […]

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How I Became a writer

Posted on March 18, 2015September 28, 2016 by Taghreed Najjar

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I have been writing for children for a long time now. People ask me why I write for children. I have been doing it for so long that it has become who I am and I have to stop and think how I first got interested in books and stories. As a child I was […]

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Al Salwa’s “Classics” get a new look

Posted on May 18, 2013September 28, 2016 by Taghreed Najjar

The first series of books I wrote was “Best Friends’ series” which consisted of 12 story books. This was in the late 80’s early 90’s. I wrote the books while teaching the first grade in a local private school (ANS). Every couple of weeks I would illustrate a story in coloring book style and print […]

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Our First Story Application “Anything”

Posted on March 18, 2013September 28, 2016 by Salwa Shakhshir

Back from Abu Dhabi Book fair where we got to test our first App “Anything” on many of the children passing by our stand and get their live feedback along with their parent’s reactions. One mother said to us, “To tell you the truth our kids know more about these new gadgets than we do […]

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