Buy The Jackal Who Thought He Was a Peacock Educational consultant Jill Bennett wrote a lovely review of The Jackal Who Thought He Was a Peacock for her children’s book blog Red Reading Hub! Read her review below! The Jackal Who Thought He Was a Peacock Firoozeh Golmohammadi Tiny Owl Publishing Coming to terms with and accepting one’s […]
Buy The Parrot and the Merchant Buy The Lion Tattoo Buy The Jackal Who Thought He Was a Peacock Buy Grobblechops Introducing our new book series Tales by Rumi! Rumi was a theologian, philosopher, jurist, and Sufi mystic, but most of all he’s remembered as one of the world’s greatest poets. Our series #TalesByRumi aims […]
Buy The Jackal Who Thought He Was a Peacock Read a wonderful review of Jackal Who Thought He Was A Peacock by Children’s Books Ireland: Based on a fable by Rumi and retold by Fereshteh Sarlak, star billing for this picturebook goes to the illustrator, internationally renowned Iranian artist Firoozeh Golmohammadi. Her luminous images lifted […]
Unhappy with the way you look? Wish you could look more like others? It’s not all it’s cracked up to be, as the Jackal finds out. Below you can watch the introductory video to The Jackal Who Thought He Was a Peacock! The jackal has never been the same since he saw the peacocks. Now […]
Today is National Poetry Day! This year’s celebration of all things verse is on the theme of ‘freedom’, which gives a perfect opportunity to enjoy some of our poetry books! When I Coloured in the World, by Ahmadreza Ahmadi and illustrated by Ehsan Abdollahi, is a beautifully profound poem of hope and change. A child […]
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 […]