Tamer Foundation's publications are on the honor list of the International Council on Books for Young People

Two books published by Tamer Institute for Community Education were nominated for the honor list of the International Council on Books for Young People (IBBY) among the most prominent Palestinian titles for children's literature this year. The first nominated book is “Pussy Feather” and nominated for graphics quality. It was written by Haifa Sawarka and illustrated by Amal. The book “Me and Jerusalem: A Biography” by Hala Sakakini was nominated for translation quality by its translator, Hala Al Shrouf.

This nomination comes every two years for books published from the member countries of the International Council on Books for Young People that are distinguished in the quality of writing, graphics, translation, and content as a whole. Here we thank the Palestinian Arbitration Committee in charge of the International Council on Books for Young People in Palestine (PBBY).

More than 2,000 copies of the Honor List catalog will be distributed around the world in simultaneous tours in Japan, Russia, the United States, and at the Bologna Children's Literature Fair 2023. Books and titles will also be kept as deposits at the International Youth Library in Munich, and various research centers in Russia, Japan, Slovakia, Switzerland, and the USA. United.

The Kitten Feather book tells about the children’s appearance through their journey with the kitten Risha to a world full of mysteries, in which the dervishes reside. The book reflects the spirit of Sufi philosophy, as the cat calls Risha to repeat her words to the children: "I am a small universe revolving within a large universe."

The book "Me and Jerusalem: A Biography" presents the stages of Hala Sakakini's life in Jerusalem, from childhood in 1924 until the Nakba of 1948. In it, Hala shares with us, through an elaborate transition between the private and the public, several stations that she lived during that period with her family. Hala expresses in the book her biography From her eyes when she was young, she recalls the remarkable presence of her father, Khalil al-Sakakini, and the clear impact it had on her self-construction and knowledge. The narration takes us amidst small and accurate details of the places and the atmosphere of life in the city in the various seasons in the thirties and forties of the last century as if the book is an invitation to the reader to walk with Hala in the streets of Jerusalem and evoke her emotionally smoothly.