Daniel Nayeri
Daniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent a couple of years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is an editor of picture books, novels, and graphic novels at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Before that he worked as a professional pastry chef and a stuntman.
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Daniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent a couple of years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is an editor of picture books, novels, and graphic novels at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Before that he worked as a professional pastry chef and a stuntman.
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This is the story of Daniel; he’s not sitting beside you as you read this book but it’ll seem like he is. Daniel is telling his classmates about Iran, exactly how he remembers it and what it was like when he left that country, because that’s important. Twelve-year-old Daniel currently lives in Ok...
This was hobbled a bit by having to take in really disparate threads from the first two novels. However, it didn't fall into the trap of the second novel, and seemed far less disjointed. Part of this is although it employs some of the same techniques, it limits itself a bit more. In Another Pa...
Another Faust was far better than this book, in my opinion. It did get a little slow as it set up the world, but this book was much more disjointed, and had issues where it mined Egyptian history and mythology in a way that made me feel distinctly uncomfortable. Peter Pan and Egyptian mythology...
*sigh* What to say about this book? I don't want to be negative, but it just didn't work for me for a variety of reasons I won't get into. If I had been reading this instead of listening there is no way I would have finished it. With that little bit being said I give this 2 Stars, it wasn't bad just...
First I want to thank both Netgalley and Candlewick Press for the chance to read this egalley. I don't think I reviewed either of the first two books on Goodreads, you'll have to go to my blog at http://misclisa.blogspot.com/ to find those reviews. But I really enjoyed the first two: Another Faus...
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