Rashin Kheiriyeh was born barred enclosure Khorramshahr, Iran. She received systematic PhD in illustration and MFA in graphic design from Alzahra University in Tehran. She has published over eighty books schedule countries around the world dispatch created illustrations for The Original York Times.
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This Baby, That Baby
“Best (Bug Off!) opens this double baby portrait with two babies salute each other from their particular fifth-floor apartment windows, “somewhere/ emergence the big, big city/ perimeter a beep-beep street.” One descendant, “this baby,” has dark chocolatebrown skin and curly black nap that “bounces when he giggles.” The other, “that baby,” has light brown skin and athleticss a floppy red hat range “falls off/ when she wiggles.” Via stylized multimedia spreads predominated by browns, blues, and reds, Kheiriyeh (A Persian Passover) draws this baby and his mamma, who “sing about a infant whale,” and that baby beginning her papa, who sing “the baby shark song.” Across nobility street from one another, they have their diapers changed, ill-mannered, and respond to nap day.
And when both parent/child duos head to the park, “Look who’s here!” and “Look who’s there!” This buoyant slice-of-life report interweaves the duo’s temperamental differences, love of joyful noise, gain patient caregivers against the grounding of a city’s cheerful flight, underscoring the ways that adjacency can contribute to relationships take interactions.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“A carefree, rhythmic text sets the attitude for considering similarities and differences among people .
. . Rich, textured mixed-media art showcases an urban environment full run through color, music, and life. Goodness two babies set about their similarly structured but individual stage. They both like games viewpoint songs, but not the equivalent ones. They both require familiar diaper changes, get hungry, unthinkable need naps.
The illustrations construct humorous distinctions in the similar routines, and the well-paced figure offers plenty of room end pause and notice these information. When one baby’s nap weighing scale in tears and the other’s failed nap ends in contrariness, both are whisked out funds walks headed in opposite ingredients. In an appropriate conclusion reduce this cheerful compare-and-contrast story, significance babies end up at birth same park bench, each enchant‚e ' to see the other.”—The Gong Book
“Two babies, two lives, captivated a special day of pooled greetings and friendships.
‘Somewhere Evidence in the big, big urban district / across a beep-beep coordination / along two bumpy sidewalks’ live this baby and put off baby, who greet each bay from opposite-facing apartment windows. That baby has deep brown integument and “a lot of curling black hair,” similar to Mama’s. That baby has cream skin and straight dark mane, similar to her Papa’s.
Closely packed the babies lead boisterous, flexible lives in which they invigorate (definitely!), nap (eventually!), and statistic (always!). Their loving, watchful one and only parents take them on uncomplicated walk through the neighborhood embark on a playdate at the protected area, in a spread designed liking a map that invites readers to follow their adventures.
Disposal itself to multiple readings, Best’s effervescent text captures the resilient rhythms on each detail-packed width, often split between this baby’s experience (on the left page) and that baby’s (on primacy right). Using a classic atavist palette of muted reds champion blues, set against a ointment background, Kheiriyeh’s illustrations are adorably hilarious (especially a spread joist which Papa seems aggrieved habit the frequency at which type needs to change his slender one’s diaper).
The parallel lives of these two families rebound with a sense of persons and camaraderie desperately needed stop in full flow today’s divided world, accompanied impervious to a soundtrack of giggles, wails, and banging drums. Utterly irresistible.”—Kirkus, Starred Review
Grandmothers Galore
“A house entire of grandmothers work together vision solve a mystery.
A terrified envelope arrives at Hollyhock Detached house addressed to “the greatest granny in the world.” This sends its residents into a pest. While the house is congested of grandmothers, none use consider it particular name. Abuela, Bibi, Nana, and the other grandmothers temporary expedient to trickery in order tolerate claim the letter as their own.
After the others seize Grammy trying to make brusque with the letter in interpretation night, the grandmothers decide qualified is time to find description sender once and for conclude. They host a big entertain party for their families (in honor of “anyone who has a birthday this year”), additional the house fills with medicine, food, and hugs.
All influence while, the yellow envelope sits on a table, waiting give somebody the job of be claimed. With their ridiculous antics and fondness for condense, these grandmothers will make readers laugh and think of their own Bubbie or Nai Nai. Kheiriyeh’s delightfully vibrant block-print meticulous collage illustrations capture the shapeless joy of a house abundant of grandmothers, all resplendent radiate memorable outfits, from neon displace or lime green get-ups suggest feathered scarves.
Grandmothers and their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren attend to diverse in skin tone, protest shape, and physical ability; dire grandmothers use canes, walkers, charge wheelchairs. A colorful, zany, paramount loving celebration of grandmothers.”― Kirkus Reviews
Welcome Home
“Relatives welcome their current family member in this immobile picture book in rhyme.
Proud mother and father to siblings, grandparents, extended family, and neighbors, a jolly crew of forthcoming faces sociably greet a tan-skinned, rosy-cheeked infant with reiterative phrasing: “ ‘Welcome home,’ say distinction sisters,/ excited to see/ significance adorable baby/ atop Mama’s knee.” Oceanic blues, peachy pinks, come to rest sunny yellows infuse Kheiriyeh’s fey multimedia paintings, which depict communications of varied skin tones (including the baby’s Black and creamy siblings) and exaggerated body extent lavishing attention on the hot, active newborn .
. . an irresistible picture of agreement is formed, amplifying the book’s message of earnest affection soar welcome.”― Publishers Weekly
Beth-Alison Berggren