However, being new is one thing, but being different is another. K-Gr 3-Lailah recently moved from Abu Dhabi to Peachtree City, GA, and while she misses her friends back in the Middle East, she is very excited to be old enough to fast during Ramadan. We also were on the 2019 Daybreak Children’s Picture Book Award - Recognizing Muslim Women’s Contributions to Literature. We also were featured on the Anti-Defamation’s Book of the Month list here for November 2015! We are on the Skipping Stone Honor List too! Lailah’s Lunchbox was also selected to the 2016 ILA-CBC Children’s Choices list, a cooperative project of the International Literacy Association (ILA) and the Children’s Book Council here.

The selection committee looks for books that emphasize human relations, represent a diversity of groups and are sensitive to a broad range of cultural experiences, present an original theme or a fresh slant on a traditional topic, are easily readable and of high literary quality, and have a pleasing format and, when appropriate, illustrations that enrich the text.ĭelighted to know that we made the list through the selection process! We are also on the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2016 list here by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the the Children’s Book Council (CBC). Lailah’s Lunchbox is on the American Library Association’s 2016 Notable Children’s Book List! We are so honored! Check out the complete list here. The Anti-Defamation League created a teacher’s guide here. Lailah’s Lunchbox – Tilbury House Publishers – published May 2015

Lailah's Lunchbox by Reem Faruqi