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About this item
Highlights
- A charming and imaginative picture book from the Middle East about a boy and his imaginary friend.
- 3-5 Years
- 11.0" x 8.75" Hardcover
- 32 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, Imagination & Play
Description
Book Synopsis
A charming and imaginative picture book from the Middle East about a boy and his imaginary friend. Shushuya is a dragon, and Shushuya is my friend.He's beautiful and very large With scales from end to end. My Dragon is the story of a little boy and his imaginary friend: a gentle dragon called Shushuya. The boy and dragon have one adventure after another: they garden together, fly through the clouds, and play hide and seek. At bedtime, we discover that the dragon is the boy's stuffed animal. Told in rhyme, with repetition of the dragon's name (Shushuya) evoking ghazal poetry, this 30-page picture book from the Middle East is sure to delight and captivate young readers.
About the Author
Bassam Altaji was born in 1967 in Kuwait. As a child, he dreamt of building and piloting a flying machine, and he loved to make up stories to tell neighborhood children. He is the author of numerous children's books, including The Fisherman, The Adventure of the Three Ducks, and Salwa On the Way to School. He studied and lived in Hungary for 23 years, and now lives in Jordan. Charlotte Shama is a French illustrator, married to a Palestinian, and has been living in the Middle East with her family and pens for many years now. After studying applied arts and animation in France and England, she worked as a volunteer in an Arabic-speaking school, a press photographer, a librarian, and an art teacher. Finally, Charlotte came back to her passion and settled happily on being a freelance illustrator. Elisabeth Jaquette is a translator from Arabic. Her translation of Minor Detail by Adania Shibli was a finalist for the National Book Awards and longlisted for the Booker International Prize. Other translations have been nominated for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, Best Translated Book Award, and TA First Translation Prize. She is also Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association.Dimensions (Overall): 11.0 Inches (H) x 8.75 Inches (W)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 3-5 Years
Number of Pages: 32
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Sub-Genre: Imagination & Play
Publisher: Crocodile Books
Format: Hardcover
Author: Bassam Altaji
Language: English
Street Date: December 2, 2025
TCIN: 94300680
UPC: 9781623716394
Item Number (DPCI): 247-46-8124
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Shipping details
Estimated ship dimensions: 1 inches length x 8.75 inches width x 11 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.806 pounds
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