Palwasha Bazger Salam holds degrees in early childhood education from Kabul University in Afghanistan and from the University of Las Vegas in Nevada, where she currently lives and teaches. As Director of Teacher Education in Kabul for Hoopoe Books' Books for Afghanistan program, she helped develop the program's Afghan curriculum, trained the Afghan teacher-training staff and translated Hoopoe's books into Dari and Pashto. Ms. Salam comes from a family of storytellers and has continued that tradition in her retelling of two Hoopoe titles: The Wisdom of Ahmad Shah and The Stranger's Farewell.
"... highly recommended" - Midwest Book Review (U.S.)
"These teaching stories can be experienced on many levels. A child
may simply enjoy hearing them; an adult may analyze them in a more
sophisticated way. Both may eventually benefit from the lessons
within." - "All Things Considered," National Public Radio
(U.S.)
"They [teaching stories] suggest ways of looking at difficulties
that can help children solve problems calmly while, at the same
time, giving them fresh perspectives on these difficulties that
help them develop their cognitive abilities" - psychologist Robert
Ornstein, Ph.D., in his lecture "Teaching Stories and the Brain"
given at the U.S. Library of Congress
"Through repeated readings, these stories provoke fresh insight and
more flexible thought in children. Beautifully illustrated." - NEA
Today: The Magazine of the National Education Association
(U.S.)
"These stories ... are not moralistic fables or parables, which aim
to indoctrinate, nor are they written only to amuse. Rather, they
are carefully designed to show effective ways of defining and
responding to common life experiences." - Denise Nessel, Ph.D.,
Senior Consultant with the National Urban Alliance for Effective
Education (U.S.), writing in Library Media Connection: The
Professional Magazine for School Library Media Specialists
(U.S.)
"... these are vibrant, engaging, universal stories...." -
Multicultural Perspectives: An Official Journal of the National
Association for Multicultural Education (U.S.)
"... a series of children's books that have captivated the hearts
and minds of people from all walks of life. The books are tales
from a rich tradition of story telling from Central Asia and the
Middle East. Stories told and retold to children, by campfire and
candlelight, for more than a thousand years." - NEA Today: The
Magazine of the National Education Association (U.S.)
"... they not only entertain, but can be understood on many
different levels and provide a form of 'nourishment for the brain'
that can help develop thinking abilities and perceptions." -
Multicultural Perspectives: An Official Journal of the National
Association for Multicultural Education (U.S.)
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