Hena Khan, ZARA'S RULES FOR RECORD-BREAKING FUN
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews award-winning children’s author Hena Khan about Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun, the first book in a humor-filled middle-grade series about neighborhood antics starring Zara, a young Muslim girl and the queen bee of it all! Hena talks about the childhood memories that inspired the story (it involves dreams of breaking a Guinness World Record and a tragic hula hoop incident) and her ultimate goal of adding diversity to children’s literature (she is Pakistani American and Muslim, and never saw herself in books growing up!). She also discusses her writing, publishing, and touring experiences (and the impacts of the pandemic and imposter syndrome on it all).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
| 0:46.9 | in the ZCast Podcast Network. |
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| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.3 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Hennikon is the author of Zara's Rules for Record Breaking Fun. |
| 1:02.2 | Hennikon is a Pakistani American Muslim who was born and raised in Maryland and enjoys |
| 1:06.9 | sharing and writing about her culture and religion. |
| 1:09.5 | She's written about a bunch of other topics from spies to space travel to take her out of her reality and on adventures. She's had a few |
| 1:16.4 | adventures of her own, managed to get to some pretty fantastic places on our planet, and met |
| 1:21.0 | incredible people along the way. She is slightly obsessed with Spain, ceramic tiles, and pottery, |
| 1:26.2 | food, flamenca, and good coffee. When she's not |
| 1:28.7 | cooking up a story, she's often actually cooking food or baking treats for family or friends. |
| 1:33.4 | She also spends a good chunk of her life writing and editing for international organizations |
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