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RAISE THE FUTURE

P is for Palestine

by Golbarg Bashi

An alphabet book about Palestine. They tried to ban it.

For you if

your child deserves to know that Palestine exists and that the people who live there have names and olive trees and a language

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An alphabet book about Palestine for the youngest readers — P is for Palestine, O is for Olive, I is for Intifada. Bashi wrote this because Palestinian children and their families deserved to see their world reflected in a picture book, and because the word Palestine deserves to exist in a child's vocabulary. It was challenged and pulled from library shelves in several US cities, which tells you everything about who finds children's books about Palestine threatening. The most essential Raise the Future book on the Middle East shelf.

Where This Book Lives

Setting
Palestine • Middle East
Voice
Written by a Palestinian author
Themes
book banning
Topics
second intifada

Part of a Reading Journey

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