Thank You Daniel & Ismail Backers!

After a year of intense editing, translation, and production, Daniel and Ismail has finally taken the field! We are so grateful to our generous backers who have been with us since the beginning of this multilingual journey and are eager to share this important book with you!

Daniel and Ismail is a one-of-a-kind, uplifting picture book about a Jewish boy and a Palestinian boy who bond on the soccer field—translated into English, Hebrew, and Arabic. We wouldn’t have been able to complete this daunting project without the support of our backers on Kickstarter. Thank you for supporting Restless in our mission to bring global literature to English-reading children, middle graders, and young adults. We believe that now more than ever it is important to share literature that celebrates, not depreciates, our similarities and our differences.

Thank you to the following backers who supported this publication:

Benjamin Jacobi, Anonymous, Paul Ryan, Anonymous, Robert Boscacci, Nneka Bolden, Barbara Chan, Anonymous, Elaine Reese, Kendall, Christopher O'Rourke, Andrea Blaauw, Naomi Firestone-Teeter, Bradley Hercman, Benjamin Samuel, Cantors George & Ricki Henschel, Shawnta Dodson, Farid Zhafri bin Mohd Zaid, K.A. Cummins, Heather Whittaker, Nick Gutierrez, Carlos Torres, Marian Rader, Heather Yoder, Gina Weber, Anjelica Ruiz, Anna Knutson, Scout O'Gara, Morgan A. Dedmon, Nanda Dyssou, Laurence Shapiro, Sophia Far, Laurel Levitan, Emily Somberg, Sevrina Flores, Stephen Sadow, Max Ubelaker Andrade, Megan Sullivan, Cathy Ries Neal, Naomi Sinnreich, Camille Lofters, Ben Nichols, Fatima Iqbal, Ilana Bittner, Noel Schornhorst, Thomas Hoffmann, Matt Bucher, Scott Junkins, Colin Legerton, Dan Landau, Bilal Ali, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Eleanor Lamb, Margo, Mick Pickup, Eugene Mundol, Juan Pablo Iglesias Yacher, Joshua Mikutis, Martin Miller, Harold Augenbraum, Rose Mary Salum, Zack Ham, Merry Arnold, Sam Bett, Cindi Hickman, Donald Kudler, Mauricio Dorfman, Rachel Rodnyansky, Dean Whitehead, Kristen Neff, Jacob Craycroft, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anna Li, Joan Gore, Diane Baer, Daniel Weinberg, Terry Segal, Hongwoo Lee, Matthew Zapruder, Zehra Karim, Anthony Eaton, Barbara Rothblatt, Amelia Gersema, Ebrahim Al-Bishri, Stanford Brown, Tegan Tigani, Richard Hurowitz, Susan Miron, Charles Dee Mitchell, David Smith, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Margot Atwell, The Creative Fund, Melissa Moxie, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, F.D. Toussaint, Pamela Rostron, Natalie Grand, Eric Damon Walters, Isaac ‘Will It Work’ Dansicker, Anonymous, Dinah Lenney, Kim, Ilan Stavans, Anonymous, Molly Antopol

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Dear Restless Reader,

From all of us at Restless Books, I’d like to wish you a joyful holiday season and un feliz año nuevo! As 2017 draws to a close, we’re heartened to look back on what has been a year of firsts for Restless.

• We released the first winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Deepak Unnikrishnan’s debut, Temporary People, which Kirkus recently named one of the Best Books of 2017.

• We published the first novel from Madagascar to be translated into English, Beyond the Rice Fields, Naivo’s first novel, translated by Allison M. Charette, awarded a PEN Heim Translation Grant.

• We launched Yonder, our new imprint of international books for young readers, with Mexican laureate Juan Villoro’s first novel for young readers, The Wild Book, translated by Lawrence Schimel.

• And we just heard back from the IRS with wonderful news: our application to become a 501(c)3 nonprofit has been approved! This means that any donations you make to Restless Books are tax-deductible.

These accomplishments fill us with pride as well as gratitude for the support of our readers and donors, who share our conviction that the world’s great stories must be shared with as many people as possible.

We hope that you’ll continue to support our work and ensure that we’re resilient in 2018 by making a year-end contribution today. All donations will be retroactively tax-deductible once the IRS approves our tax-exempt status, which is currently in process.

With your help, Restless Books has become a destination for readers looking for exceptional literature from around the world, and we’re looking forward to building on that success. Your donation will support the production of upcoming books, like Arshia Sattar’s  beautifully illustrated retelling of the Ramayana, one of the world’s oldest and best-loved tales, as the second title in our Yonder imprint; The Body Papers, by Grace Talusan, winner of our 2017 Prize for New Immigrant Writing; and Chekhov: Stories for our Time, the latest release in our line of Restless Classics.

Finding and translating literature into English is a costly process, and that’s precisely why larger houses avoid it. However, Restless Books believes that these are risks worth taking, and we rely on your generosity to help us carry out our mission.  Please join us in sharing these remarkable stories with readers by making a donation today.

Abrazos,

Ilan Stavans
Publisher

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