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لا تفتحي هذا الكتاب / حين أفتح هذا الكتاب
هذا كتاب في قصتين، تم إخراجه على شكل “أكورديون”. في إحدى جهتيه من جهة قصة بعنوان: لا تفتحي هذا الكتاب، ومن الجهة
الثانية قصة بعنوان: حين أفتح هذا الكتاب. يهدف “لا تفتحي هذا الكتاب” إلى إثارة خيال الطفل باستعادة شخصيات خرافية
من حكايات كلاسيكية يعرفها، وإلى زيادة ثقته بنفسه. أمّا قصة “حين أفتح هذا الكتاب” توفر للطفل بيئة آمنة ومألوفة ترتبط
فيها العطور والروائح الجميلة بالشعور بالأمان والفرح.
This dual book, which contains a story on each side, brings together the famous villains of classical fairy tales and then unfolds into a world of beauty and warmth. The accordion shaped book flips between a world where the child sees villains and is then asked to be the hero of the book and rescue a frightened monster from the rest of the villains, and into a world of hand picked mint, fresh baked bread, burning incenses and rose water. Do Not Open this Book! / When I open this book is an exciting read for a child to trigger his/her imagination and is designed antithetically to create a playful read for both stories.
الثانية قصة بعنوان: حين أفتح هذا الكتاب. يهدف “لا تفتحي هذا الكتاب” إلى إثارة خيال الطفل باستعادة شخصيات خرافية
من حكايات كلاسيكية يعرفها، وإلى زيادة ثقته بنفسه. أمّا قصة “حين أفتح هذا الكتاب” توفر للطفل بيئة آمنة ومألوفة ترتبط
فيها العطور والروائح الجميلة بالشعور بالأمان والفرح.
This dual book, which contains a story on each side, brings together the famous villains of classical fairy tales and then unfolds into a world of beauty and warmth. The accordion shaped book flips between a world where the child sees villains and is then asked to be the hero of the book and rescue a frightened monster from the rest of the villains, and into a world of hand picked mint, fresh baked bread, burning incenses and rose water. Do Not Open this Book! / When I open this book is an exciting read for a child to trigger his/her imagination and is designed antithetically to create a playful read for both stories.
30 pages, Accordion
First published January 1, 2013
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About the author
Fatima Sharafeddine
197 books131 followersSee also فاطمة شرف الدين.
Fatima Sharafeddine was born in 1966 in Beirut, Lebanon, and spent the first six years of her childhood in Sierra Leon, in West Africa.
Three years after she returned with her family to live in her native country, the Lebanese civil war started. She spent the next 15 years of her life moving between cities, houses, and schools, always trying to refuge in the safest area.
In 1989, she received her B.A. in Early Childhood Education from the Lebanese American University. A year later, she got married and moved to the USA where she received a Master’s degree in Educational Theory and Practice (1993), with focus on Children’s Literature, and a Master’s degree in Modern Arabic Literature (1996), both from Ohio State University.
She moved to Houston, Texas in 1996, where she worked for two years as a lead teacher with children aged 3 to 6. At a later stage, she taught Arabic Language and Culture classes at Rice University (from 1998 to 2001).
In 2001, she moved with her husband and two children to Brussels, Belgium, and decided to become fully dedicated to writing for children. She currently works with three publishing houses, ASALA (Lebanon), KALIMAT (UAE), and MIJADE (Belgium). She mainly writes for children between 0 and 12 years old, but recently started writing for young adults. Over the last 6 years, she has written and published over 45 books, and translated several others from English and French into Arabic.
Moreover, several of her books have been translated to various Asian and European languages (details in the bibliography).
In March of 2007, she won the award of the best book of 2007 for her book “Mountain rooster” from the ‘National Committee of the Lebanese Child’, and in February 2009, her book “There is war in my city” was chosen to be on the honor list of Anna Lindh Foundation.
In 2010 she was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, for her achievements in Children’s Literature in the Arab World.
Fatima is an active member of the Society for Children Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Brussels branch, where she participates in several workshops a year, as well as organizes bimonthly critique group meetings. She also attends several book fairs during the year, mainly the Frankfurt book fair, the Bologna book fair, and the Beirut International Book fair. She participates in various reading activities in Lebanon, such as the Reading Week (in spring) and the Book Festival (in summer), where she gets a chance to go to remote villages in Lebanon and read to the children in schools and public libraries.
She has recently started to give workshops, in various Arab capitals, for writers who want to focus on children’s literature.
Fatima Sharafeddine was born in 1966 in Beirut, Lebanon, and spent the first six years of her childhood in Sierra Leon, in West Africa.
Three years after she returned with her family to live in her native country, the Lebanese civil war started. She spent the next 15 years of her life moving between cities, houses, and schools, always trying to refuge in the safest area.
In 1989, she received her B.A. in Early Childhood Education from the Lebanese American University. A year later, she got married and moved to the USA where she received a Master’s degree in Educational Theory and Practice (1993), with focus on Children’s Literature, and a Master’s degree in Modern Arabic Literature (1996), both from Ohio State University.
She moved to Houston, Texas in 1996, where she worked for two years as a lead teacher with children aged 3 to 6. At a later stage, she taught Arabic Language and Culture classes at Rice University (from 1998 to 2001).
In 2001, she moved with her husband and two children to Brussels, Belgium, and decided to become fully dedicated to writing for children. She currently works with three publishing houses, ASALA (Lebanon), KALIMAT (UAE), and MIJADE (Belgium). She mainly writes for children between 0 and 12 years old, but recently started writing for young adults. Over the last 6 years, she has written and published over 45 books, and translated several others from English and French into Arabic.
Moreover, several of her books have been translated to various Asian and European languages (details in the bibliography).
In March of 2007, she won the award of the best book of 2007 for her book “Mountain rooster” from the ‘National Committee of the Lebanese Child’, and in February 2009, her book “There is war in my city” was chosen to be on the honor list of Anna Lindh Foundation.
In 2010 she was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, for her achievements in Children’s Literature in the Arab World.
Fatima is an active member of the Society for Children Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Brussels branch, where she participates in several workshops a year, as well as organizes bimonthly critique group meetings. She also attends several book fairs during the year, mainly the Frankfurt book fair, the Bologna book fair, and the Beirut International Book fair. She participates in various reading activities in Lebanon, such as the Reading Week (in spring) and the Book Festival (in summer), where she gets a chance to go to remote villages in Lebanon and read to the children in schools and public libraries.
She has recently started to give workshops, in various Arab capitals, for writers who want to focus on children’s literature.
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January 26, 2018
بالنسبة لي هذا الكتاب يُعد نقلة نوعية في الطباعة العربية لكتب الطفل، طبعة فاخرة وتصميم جذّاب جاء في شكل أكورديون يحوي كتابين في واحد، الأول (حين أفتحُ هذا الكتاب) وصف لعالم جميل تتخلله الروائح الطيبة كنايةً عن الأُلفة التي تُحدثها المكتبة في البيت، أما الآخر (لاتفتحي هذا الكتاب) استحضار لشخصيات من الأدب العالمي الكلاسيكي في قالب مثير للخيال والفزع وجدته في المقابل كناية عن العالم المظلم الذي يخلّفه عدم فتح الكتب عموماً!
آدم وصف الكتاب بأنه مخيف وجميل في الوقت نفسه، ورد كانت منجذبة للجزء المتعلق بالشخصيات كون الكتاب يخوّل للراوي مساحة شاسعة للتنقل بين الأصوات والانفعالات.
آدم وصف الكتاب بأنه مخيف وجميل في الوقت نفسه، ورد كانت منجذبة للجزء المتعلق بالشخصيات كون الكتاب يخوّل للراوي مساحة شاسعة للتنقل بين الأصوات والانفعالات.
August 11, 2018
جميل جدا وفكرة ذكية.
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