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Text in Arabic. These series teach children aged 0-3 about the environment around them using hand-drawn illustrations that reflect local Qatari and Gulf culture. The series includes seven books about colors, toys, foods, shapes, camels, falcons, and palm trees.

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Families can be overwhelming, and for Majid, one of four kids, its a positive nightmare! His sister always bosses him around, while his other sister plays with his toys without asking. Even his older brother takes pleasure in teasing him and playing pranks on him. Majid is angry and hes had enough. He wishes more than anything that he was an only child. But what would that really mean? Majid and his mother explore the pitfalls of being an only child, in the hopes of changing his mind.

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Text in Arabic. Have you ever wondered how clowns got their bright, bulbous, red nose? Read the story of Ammar, the young sheppard, to find out!

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Text in Arabic. Sawsana refuses to wear the dress that her mom bought her. It is covered in horrendous polka dots! What was her mother thinking of, buying her this dress? If youve ever had to convince a stubborn child to put on their clothes, then this entertaining tale is perfect for you.

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Text in Arabic. These series teach children aged 0-3 about the environment around them using hand-drawn illustrations that reflect local Qatari and Gulf culture. The series includes seven books about colors, toys, foods, shapes, camels, falcons, and palm trees.

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Text in Arabic. Can you read me? Turtle found a book, but it doesnt have any words in it! Join her as she goes on a journey to find the words to fill up her book.

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Text in Arabic. These series teach children aged 0-3 about the environment around them using hand-drawn illustrations that reflect local Qatari and Gulf culture. The series includes seven books about colors, toys, foods, shapes, camels, falcons, and palm trees.

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The pearl fleet has returned from another hard season at sea. The legendary guardian of the Sea Kingdom, Abu Derya, has inflicted a terrible defeat and many ships and sailors have been lost. When Rashids grandmother has a dream in which her grandsons hands are filled with pearls, the villagers are determined to reverse their fortune. But Abu Derya is ready once again to unleash his forces.

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Alphabet City is a playful, homegrown, and alliterative approach to learning the alphabet made for curious kids, magnificent mothers, golden grannies, fantastic fathers, and everyone in between. It enriches the connection between children, parents, and our cities with an uplifting and original educational approach. At its very heart and soul, Alphabet City aims to strengthen our childrens vocabulary while nurturing their imaginations. Aesthetically gorgeous and stunningly illustrated, each page paints an inspirational narrative to reinforce a childs growing library of words, while teaching them inventively about the place in which they live.

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Text in Arabic. These series teach children aged 0-3 about the environment around them using hand-drawn illustrations that reflect local Qatari and Gulf culture. The series includes seven books about colors, toys, foods, shapes, camels, falcons, and palm trees.

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Text in Arabic. Let's count! This is not your ordinary counting book; instead, Counting Qatar aims to teach children Arabic numerals from 1 to 10 through pictures from Gulf culture, such as local animals and items found in Gulf homes since ancient times.

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Text in Arabic. The pearl fleet has returned from another hard season at sea. The legendary guardian of the Sea Kingdom, Abu Derya, has inflicted a terrible defeat and many ships and sailors have been lost. When Rashids grandmother has a dream in which her grandsons hands are filled with pearls, the villagers are determined to reverse their fortune. But Abu Derya is ready once again to unleash his forces.

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Can you change the world in one week? Thirteen-year-old author, Al Maha Khalid Al Delaimi, sure thinks so! Follow her on a journey with Jana, a fictional character loosely based on the author herself, who learns a new lesson every day of the week while away on vacation. With each passing day, Jana advises readers on personal and civic duties and responsibilities. Small changes by an individual really can impact the world. By adopting Janas values, kids really do make the world a better place.

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Text in Arabic. From the window of his hospital bedroom, a child looks out at the moon. The bright, white moon is reflected on the childs smooth, bare head. More than their similarity in appearance, both the moon and the child are symbols of purity and hope. In her delicate and poetic style, childrens author Muneera Saad Al-Romaihi tackles the poignant subject of brave children fighting the battle for their life where they face disease with a smile, and see the light in the heart of darkness.

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Text in Arabic. Badr is 6-year-old boy who loves to play outside in his garden. But one of his favourite pastimes is not a pleasant one: Badr loves to squash ants. He squishes them and squeezes them. He blocks their path and takes away their food. He stomps on their home and makes their lives miserable. He never thought what it may be like for the ants having to deal with Badr, the ant bully. But one fateful night, Badr gets a taste of his own medicine when he experiences first-hand how it feels to be a tiny ant with a big bully.

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Text in Arabic. These series teach children aged 0-3 about the environment around them using hand-drawn illustrations that reflect local Qatari and Gulf culture. The series includes seven books about colors, toys, foods, shapes, camels, falcons, and palm trees.

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Text in Arabic. Imagine a night without internet. No social media, no chatting, no games or any other form of technology-based entertainment. Could you survive? Noura and Youssef face that exact reality one fateful night when the electricity goes out and they are stuck with their family, in the dark, with seemingly nothing to do. An insightful and reflective tale about how the internet is replacing familial bonds and how emotional connections need to be nurtured by human contact and not via technological means.

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Text in Arabic. These series teach children aged 0-3 about the environment around them using hand-drawn illustrations that reflect local Qatari and Gulf culture. The series includes seven books about colors, toys, foods, shapes, camels, falcons, and palm trees.

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Azzan introduces us to his grandmother, who he loves very much. He loves visiting her, listening to her tell him stories, and her big hugs. But one day, Azzan has to say goodbye to his grandmotherwill he be able to understand where she has gone and what it means to lose her?

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Text in Arabic. Abdullah, like any other child, loves to spend his money on toys and sweets and things for himself. But could his money be put to better use? When a Riyal comes to life and takes Abdullah on an adventurous journey to different places around the world, he learns the value of money and how he can spend in so many different and selfless ways.

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‘Beirut39' is a Hay Festival project which aims to select and celebrate 39 of the best young Arab writers as a centrepiece of the Beirut World Capital festivities in April 2010. Following the successful launch of ‘Bogotá 39', which identified many of the most interesting upcoming Latin American talents, including Wendy Guerra, Junot Diaz (Pulitzer Prize), Santiago Roncagliolo and Juan Gabriel Vásquez (short-listed for the IFFP), ‘Beirut 39' will bring to worldwide attention the best work from the Arab world. The judges will select from more than 300 submissions and the writers' names will be unveiled in September 2009. The book will be published in English throughout the world (except the Arab world) by Bloomsbury, and in Arabic throughout the world and in English in the Arab World by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing.

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