We’re so delighted to announce that Daniel and Ismail and The Casket of Time have been named to USBBY’s 2020 Outstanding International Books List!
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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
Look Inside the Remarkable Trilingual Picture Book, 'Daniel and Ismail'
A remarkable multilingual picture book, Daniel and Ismail tells the story of a Jewish boy and a Palestinian boy who grow up in separate communities and become friends by chance on the soccer field. Each boy’s family is upset at the news, yet the power of conversation and play helps the boys overcome their differences. To amplify this message of unity, we have translated the book from Juan Pablo Iglesias’ Spanish into English (translated by Ilan Stavans), Hebrew (translated by Eliezer Nowodworski and Frieda Press-Danieli), and Arabic (translated by Randa Sayegh). See this remarkable layout in the gallery below, as set against Alex Peris’ beautiful illustrations.
by Juan Pablo Iglesias Yacher
Illustrations by Alex Peris
Translated from the Spanish by Ilan Stavans
Translated into Hebrew by Eliezer Nowodworski and Frieda Press-Danieli
Translated into Arabic by Randa Sayegh
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A one-of-a-kind picture book about an Israeli boy and a Palestinian boy who bond on the soccer field—translated into English, Hebrew, and Arabic.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632061560
Publication date: Aug 20, 2019
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063793
Paperback publication date: May 7, 2024