Pub Date: March 3, 2026
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2025005045
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 04 to 08
Physical Info: 0.63" H x 8.11" L x 10.31" W ( 0.88 lbs) 48 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience | SelfEsteem and SelfReliance | Imagination and Play
Description: Through perseverance, a young child learns to tie their shoelaces like a big kid.
Brief description: Jashar Awan is an award-winning author and illustrator of books for children. Growing up outside of Washington, DC, Jashar loved drawing and reading. In fact, he still does. For many years, he drew illustrations for publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times. Since being named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start with his debut picture book What a Lucky Day! in 2020, his subsequent books have garnered starred reviews and spots on state reading lists and best-of lists from the New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Good Housekeeping, NPR, and more. He is the creator of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book Towed by Toad and the Caldecott Honor book Every Monday Mabel. He lives in Ohio with his wife and their son, who loves drawing and reading, too. Visit him at JasharAwan.com.
Review Quotes: ★ "Awan has again offered a warm little pocket of the world where a child is loved, respected, protected, and confident."--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, STARRED REVIEW