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Image from Marmaduke Duck and Bernadette Bear, illustrated by Sarah Davis, published by Scholastic

Sharjah Children's Reading Festival, 2019

In 2019, I was invited to present at the Sharjah Children's Reading Festival in the United Arab Emirates. This is a ten-day festival attracting over 300,000 visitors. I went with picture book writer-illustrator Ruth Paul - it was an all-expenses-paid, business-class-flights affair, with a six-night stay at the Hilton! OOH LA LA LA LA! Here's what we did:
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No expenses spared on the exhibits!
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         The King of Sharjah came to the festival

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The school I visited had over 5000 students!
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We managed to get into the Gulf Today, a nationwide newspaper!
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In other international news, Politics and Prose, a bookstore in Washington where Barack Obama shops (!!!), recently reviewed The Grizzled Grist!


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I also had some great reviews for Yak and Gnu a while back in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe. Here is the New York Times review:


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