Tiny Owl joined the fun at Greenwich Book Festival 2017, in the majestic setting of the Royal Observatory, for two events featuring our stories by Rumi! Storyteller Alia Alzougbi performed Rumi’s fable The Jackal Who Thought he was a Peacock and dressed up in a truly fabulous costume! She also gave a traditional pardekhani performance […]
Tiny Owl is in the middle of a busy summer of events at book festivals up and down the country. At the Greenwich Book Festival and the Hay International Festival, Alia Alzougbi’s storytelling sessions brought two of our titles to life: The Jackal Who Thought He Was A Peacock and The Parrot and the Merchant. In this special […]
Greenwich Book Festival Findings! By Laura Hagerty* What’s in a book? Worlds of wonder, fantasy and discovery are found between the covers of books. Discovery leads to new experiences that develop an understanding of new thoughts and ideas that may previously have been foreign. During the last weekend in May, the […]
Wonderful events at Greenwich Book Festival Picture this: a beautiful blue-sky day, the river lazily taking boats of tourists up and down the Thames and a grassy yard filled with children playing and adults reading in the sunshine. This was the scene last Saturday 27 May at the Greenwich Book Festival, where Tiny Owl hosted […]
Hay Festival: a magical melting pot of international ideas! The Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, is the biggest event of the international literary calendar. At the edge of the Brecon Beacons, it’s a magical melting pot of ideas from all over the world, attended by writers and artists, thinkers and scholars, performers and publishers… including […]
Read a wonderful review of The Jackal Who Thought He Was A Peacock by educational consultant Laura Davies for Outside in World: The Jackal Who Thought He Was a Peacock Author: Based on a tale by Rumi, retold by Fereshteh Sarlak Illustrator: Firoozeh Golmohammadi Translator: Azita Rassi ISBN: 9781910328132 Reading age: 6 – 8 (and […]
You may have heard of the Persian storyteller Rumi and his fables. But who was he? Born in what is now Afghanistan in the 13th century, he was a Sufi mystic, ethical philosopher, teacher and world-renowned poet. His works have been translated into many languages and media, and they include themes of peace, love and […]
By Anahita Teymorian (Taymourian) Buy A Bird Like Himself hardback, 32 pp, £11.99 (discounts may apply) Buy A Bird… Read more…
By: AhmadReza Ahmadi Illustrations by: Nahid Kazemi Buy Alive Again paperback, 24 pp, £7.99 (discounts may apply) Buy Alive Again hardback,… Read more…
Buy The Parrot and the Merchant
Based on a fable by Rumi Illustrations by: Marjan Vafaian The exquisitely illustrated story is an enchanting fable exploring how… Read more…
By Anahita Teymorian (Taymourian) written and illustrated by Anahita Teymorian, translated by Azita Rassi Buy The Clever Mouse hardback,… Read more…
Buy When I Coloured in the World
By: AhmadReza Ahmadi Illustrations by: Ehsan Abdollahi Buy When I Coloured in the World, paperback, 32pp, £7.99 (discounts may apply)… Read more…
