Books by Ahmad Akbarpour and Complete Book Reviews

Ahmad Akbarpour, trans. from the Persian by Majid Saghafi, illus. by Isabelle Arsenault. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55498-169-4
First published in 1999, Iranian writer Akbarpour’s (Good Night, Commander) story starts during the train journey of the title, as a teacher, never named, befriends Banafsheh, a motherless five-year-old girl. With uncanny insight into the chasm...
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Ahmad Akbarpour, Author, Morteza Zahedi, Illustrator, Shadi Eskandani, Translator , illus. by Morteza Zahedi. Groundwood $17.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-88899-989-4
Almost unbearably poignant, this collaboration by an Iranian writer and illustrator examines the horrors that war visits on children. Zahedi’s childlike drawings, done in pencil with occasional spots of color, use a bird’s-eye...
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