The Shape of Home - Hardcover

Iran looks like a cat. That's what Rashin knows on her first day of school in America, when her new teacher asks every child to imagine the shape of the country their family comes from. The Shape of Home is Rashin Kheiriyeh's own story -- a joyful, tender portrait of what it means to carry one place inside you while learning to belong to another.

• Hardcover, 40 pages, fully illustrated; published September 2021 by Levine Querido (ISBN 9781646140985); three starred reviews from Kirkus, School Library Journal, and Booklist
• Large format: 9.1 x 11.1 in -- Kheiriyeh's exuberant illustrations fill every page
• Juvenile fiction for early readers -- themes of immigration, identity, and finding home between cultures