{"id":2299,"date":"2018-04-13T12:08:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T10:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/didouqen.com\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2018-04-13T12:08:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T10:08:20","slug":"join-hafs-founders-circle-and-receive-a-signed-copy-of-the-butter-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/join-hafs-founders-circle-and-receive-a-signed-copy-of-the-butter-man\/","title":{"rendered":"JOIN HAF&#8217;S FOUNDERS&#8217; CIRCLE AND RECEIVE A SIGNED COPY OF THE BUTTER MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after its release, in the spring of 2008, HAF teamed up with the\u00a0authors of the children\u2019s book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesbridge.com\/productdetails.cfm?PC=4721\">The Butter Man<\/a>, Ali Alalou and Elizabeth Letts Alalou (RPCV Morocco 1983-1986),\u00a0to share their Moroccan tale of \u201cpatience, perseverance, and hope\u201d with HAF friends and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed out on purchasing a\u00a0signed copy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesbridge.com\/productdetails.cfm?PC=4721\">The Butter Man<\/a>\u00a0at one of\u00a0HAF&#8217;s book signing events don\u2019t despair! You\u2019ll be happy to know that all\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/content\/founders-circle\">Founders\u2019 Circle<\/a>members receive a complimentary singed copy when they make a gift of $250 or more to HAF \u2013 it is our way of saying thank you to our\u00a0core supporters (<a href=\"https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/content\/founders-circle\">forty and growing!<\/a>)\u00a0and sharing a\u00a0small part\u00a0of Morocco with you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Weaving between the present and past, this picture book introduces readers to Berber culture in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. While young Nora impatiently waits for couscous to cook, her father tells her about a famine during his childhood. Food was so scarce that his father left home to find work. Baba&#8217;s resourceful mother helped him stay busy so he did not dwell on hunger. Eventually, his father returned home with food and, ultimately, the rains came.\u00a0\u00a0 -School Library Journal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The book has garnered notable awards, including:<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0A Junior Library Guild Selectionn<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Storytellers World Award Honor Book<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0A Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended Book<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0A Cooperative Children&#8217;s Book Center (CCBC) Choice<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Bank Street College&#8217;s The Best Children&#8217;s Books of the Year<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Peace Corps Writers Award &#8211; Award for Best Children&#8217;s Writing<\/p>\n<p>The book\u2019s illustrator, Julie Klear Essakalli was inspired by the beauty and rawness of many trips to the High Atlas Mountains. Julie based her illustrations on the remote\u00a0Amazigh village of Zig Zaoun, a perfectly nestled, magical, and untouched farming village, dating back several centuries. This picturesque village provided for the perfect backdrop for Ali&#8217;s surroundings in the story.\u00a0 Julie lives in Marrakech, Morocco with her husband and business partner Moulay Essakalli and their two children. She is the co-founder &amp; creative director of the award-winning company,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zidzid.us\/\">Zid Zid Kids<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and of course a\u00a0proud supporter of the High Atlas Foundation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after its release, in the spring of 2008, HAF teamed up with the\u00a0authors of the children\u2019s book\u00a0The Butter Man, Ali Alalou and Elizabeth Letts Alalou (RPCV Morocco 1983-1986),\u00a0to share their Moroccan tale of \u201cpatience, perseverance, and hope\u201d with HAF friends and supporters. If you missed out on purchasing a\u00a0signed copy of\u00a0The Butter Man\u00a0at one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}