{"id":1262,"date":"2022-03-15T21:21:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatimasharafeddine.com\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2022-04-01T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T13:02:57","slug":"the-very-hungry-caterpillar-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatimasharafeddine.com\/ar\/the-very-hungry-caterpillar-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News! Fatima Sharafeddine\u2019s \u0641\u0627\u062a\u0646 Wins 2010 \u2018Best Book\u2019 Prize at Beirut\u00a0Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Produced by JWR Productions, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show features a menagerie of 75 enchanting <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cBest Book\u201d prizes are out at the 2010 Beirut Book Fair, and Fatima Sharafeddine\u2019s first young-adult (YA) novel, \u0641\u0627\u062a\u0646, has very deservedly taken first prize for children\u2019s literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/readkutubkids.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/202464321.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readkutubkids.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/202464321.jpg?w=225&amp;h=300\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1234\" title=\"202464321\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book follows a bright, ambitious, sensitive young girl\u2014\u0641\u0627\u062a\u0646\u2014as she is brought by her parents to Beirut for the first time and placed into service with a wealthy family. What happens to her and to the family\u2019s elder girl, Dalia, form the center of the novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The novel is both a breakthrough for Sharafeddine, who had not previously written YA, and for the entire YA genre in Arabic. Sharafeddine\u2019s book\u2014along with two by Samah Idris, and another by him released at this year\u2019s Beirut fair, \u0641\u0644\u0627\u0641\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0627\u0632\u062d\u064a\u0646\u2014provides a model of simple, beautiful, straightforward prose, written in short sentences for easy and enjoyable digestion by adolescent readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh! And \u0623\u0644\u0641 \u0645\u0628\u0631\u0648\u0643\u060c \u064a\u0627 \u0641\u0627\u0637\u0645\u0629. We all can\u2019t wait for the next one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/readkutubkids.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/04\/breaking-news-fatima-sharafeddines-%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%86-wins-2010-beirut-book-fair-prize-for-best-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/readkutubkids.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/04\/breaking-news-fatima-sharafeddines-%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%86-wins-2010-beirut-book-fair-prize-for-best-book\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Produced by JWR Productions, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show features a menagerie of 75 enchanting The \u201cBest Book\u201d prizes are out at the 2010 Beirut Book Fair, and Fatima Sharafeddine\u2019s first young-adult (YA) novel, \u0641\u0627\u062a\u0646, has very deservedly taken first prize for children\u2019s literature. The book follows a bright, ambitious, sensitive young girl\u2014\u0641\u0627\u062a\u0646\u2014as she is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatimasharafeddine.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatimasharafeddine.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatimasharafeddine.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatimasharafeddine.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatimasharafeddine.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatimasharafeddine.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatimasharafeddine.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatimasharafeddine.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatimasharafeddine.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatimasharafeddine.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}