Nahid Kazemi

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When a florist puts two plants in the same rosy-colored pot, he tells the bigger, stronger plant to look after the smaller, weaker one. An artist buys the plants and takes them home, where they become part of the family, celebrating happy occasions and feeling sorrowful during hard times. But as time passes and the plants grow, the pot becomes too small, and the two must be separated. While this makes the larger plant sad, it still rejoices in the way the smaller one flourishes on its own, and looks forward to the day when they will be planted in the artist's garden to grow into trees together.
Nahid Kazemi has created a charming, beautifully illustrated story about accepting growth and change in close relationships.

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An old woman shares her home with a scruffy old dog, her best friend and constant companion. One fall day, they go for a walk and the woman throws sticks for the dog. She loves hearing the autumn leaves under her feet and the wind in the trees. She looks up at a crow in the sky and imagines what it might feel like to fly. As the wind comes up and the light begins to fade, she remembers playing outside as a child, never wanting to go in. Suddenly she notices a stunning harvest moon against the darkening sky. The next morning, as she sits outside to watch the sun rise, she looks forward to spending a new day with her friend.

Gentle illustrations accompany this portrayal of an elderly person who lives peaceably with her dog, appreciating what each moment brings.

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Alone with himself, even among his flock, a young bird finds an unexpected connection in the eyes of a little girl. He begins to wonder about the nature of life: What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be a bird? Swept up in his exploration of the human world, he doesn't notice that his flock has already migrated south for the season. Written by JonArno Lawson and beautifully illustrated by Nahid Kazemi, this sparse, lyrical story is about community lost and found, and what it means to know one's self.

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The small Orange House stands at the end of the alley, feeling sad and left out as all the nearby tall buildings admire another new building being built. Her old stone stairs and pipes are no match for the new building s elevator and brand new pipes that they say will never burst. Feeling she has no place in the world anymore, the Orange House finds surprising new friends as the workmen advance towards her with their shovels and picks.

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When things that a boy loves disappear from his life, he wonders whether they are gone forever. Will blossom and rain ever come back? Yes they will, but in their own time. This reasurring story moves from feelings of loss to a new confidence that comes with knowledge that these and more do, and will, return.

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Shahrzad and the Angry King is a contemporary reimagining of the Scheherazade tale, starring scooter-riding, story-loving Shahrzad.
Shahrzad loves stories and looks for them everywhere. When she meets a boy and asks him to tell her his story, he recounts fleeing a country that was peaceful and happy, until its grieving king grew angry and cruel. Shahrzad can't forget the boy and his story, and so, when she sees a toy airplane in a store, she imagines herself zooming off to the boy's home country, where she confronts the king, to make him reflect on the kind of leader he really wants to be. Like Scheherazade, she tells the king story after story, but this time not to save her own life, but those of the king's people and his own.
Because Shahrzad knows the power of the creative imagination and that the stories we tell and the words we use shape our very existence. We live and die by the sword? Not exactly, says Shahrzad. We live or die by the stories we tell and how we see, frame, and word the world.
Brought to life by Iranian artist Nahid Kazemi, this bold heroine reminds us of how powerfully intertwined reality is with the stories we tell.

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Eunice immigre au Canada avec son père et sa grand-mère. Sa mère ne peut pas les rejoindre tout de suite. Eunice va alors ressentir un tel manque qu’elle en perdra la parole. Incapable de parler, elle vit un blocage total. On va suivre Eunice dans son attente, dans son quotidien, dans sa tête, dans ses dessins… Jusqu’au jour où sa maman revient…

Il n’y a pour l'instant pas d’album en version française de cette artiste

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Shahrzad & The Angry King

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Shahrzad adore les histoires, elle s'inspire de tout ce qu'elle entend autour d'elle et passe son temps à imaginer, raconter et écrire des récits. Un jour, lorsque un garçon triste lui confie avoir fui son pays à cause d'un roi méchant, Shahrzad ne peut s'empêcher de vouloir l'aider. Une idée lui vient... Elle s'imagine s'envoler vers le royaume du roi en colère pour sauver le pays du silence et de la tristesse. Elle décide alors de conter toutes sortes d'histoires au roi.

Dans cette adaptation du conte des "Mille et une nuits", Nahid Kazemi met en scène une héroïne audacieuse et le célèbre tyran du conte persan, que la petite fille va convertir en roi bon et clément grâce à ses histoires.

Cet album d'une étonnante modernité nous apprend à rêver, imaginer, tout en rappelant la force de l'altruisme et la fragilité de la paix.