Saadia Faruqi, A THOUSAND QUESTIONS

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Zibby and her daughter interviewed author Saadia Faruqi about her latest book, A Thousand Questions, as part of the Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club. Although it's a middle-grade novel, Saadia hopes that readers of all ages will enjoy it and learn something about Pakistan. She talks with Zibby about why she wants to write books for kids about other cultures that go beyond news headlines, invite young readers to have complex conversations, and feature characters that are not often seen in books. Join the KidsPost Summer Book Club here: https://bit.ly/3vGgaBy

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
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0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium.
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0:32.8	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:40.1	I am so excited to be partnering with the Washington Post's Kids Post Summer Book Club. I'll be interviewing two of their
0:46.3	eight authors for the eight books that they picked about friendship. And if you and your children
0:51.3	have not signed up for this club, they target mostly ages 8 to 14,
0:55.3	but you can older and younger are welcome to.
0:57.9	There are eight books on friendship this summer that they picked and that we're already in the hardcover paper.
1:03.0	You can search for it online at kids' posts.
1:05.6	And at the end of the summer, your kid can have their name in the newspaper and you get a free gift.
1:10.5	And it's really
1:11.6	awesome and it's a great way to encourage summer reading, especially doing so with friends.
1:15.8	So get your child to sign up, have your friend, grab a friend so that they can both do this
1:20.6	friendship book club together. And this is the first one. My daughter and I actually listened to this
1:25.7	together in a couple car rides on
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