A Beautiful Safe Space: Getting Into the Humor and Delights of Mama Shamsi at the Bazaar with Mojdeh Hassani and Samira Iravani

I was heartbroken.

It was a day near the end of 2022 and my library had just put the finishing touches on our 2022 101 Great Books for Kids list. It was, to be frank, a gorgeous collection of books and I was feeling mighty proud of it. I had gotten my mail and was breezing through a bunch of children’s books for 2023 when a particular title caught my eye:

Ooo! I don’t know what it was, but something about the cover just called to me. Maybe it was the grandmother’s expression, or the thi...