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 | My Father's Shop
Author: Ichikawa, Satomi
Illustrator: Ichikawa, Satomi
Country of Origin: France 
Ages: 4 - 6
Themes: Family, Diversity, Global Awareness, Morrocco
Hardcover $15.95
 Awards:- ASA Children’s Africana Book Award
- Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year
- USBBY Outstanding International Booklist
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There is a rug in his father’s shop that Mustafa loves. (It has a hole in it, so you can put it over your head and still see out.) No one else wants the rug, though lots of tourists visit the shop. His father always welcomes them – "Bienvenue" – and offers them tea – "O cha wa ikaga desu ka?" Mustafa’s father would like him to know some words in other languages too, and he tells Mustafa that he may have the rug if he agrees to learn. But after the first lesson, Mustafa is so bored he runs out of the shop (with the carpet on his head). Ending up at the market, he finds a very different way of learning foreign languages...and of getting tourists to visit his father’s shop.
"...an entertaining, informative, and beautifully illustrated picture book." - BIG A little a
"Besides a gentle cultural lesson in how even animals sound different in different countries, Ichikawa’s glowing pictures, with their radiant colors and slightly exaggerated forms, present an engaging image of a Moroccan marketplace and of a boy who can find a dozen ways of playing with a rug with a small hole." - Booklist
"The vibrant watercolors are full of action and fun as the artist captures the many expressions on the faces of vendors and tourists. A joyous story that brings people from different cultures together." - Kirkus Reviews
"The text is just long enough to work in a storytime for preschoolers who will also have fun learning how to crow like a rooster in different languages just like Mustafa. It is a great way to share multicultural awareness with children, letting them see just like Mustafa did that all these cultures are what make up the rug of life." - Kids Lit
"Written by a Japanese born Parisian resident about a Moroccan bazaar, this is one of those international picture books with particularly good credentials. It’s even nicer that the story is an interesting one as well." - A Fuse #8 Production
"...very special picture book; a book which embraces different cultures and peoples and which encourages children to see that the world is not such a big place after all." - Through the Looking Glass
"This delightful picture book gently teaches a multicultural lesson while capturing the essence of boyhood." - Librarians' Choices 2006
"...irresistibly engaging." - Cooperative Children's Book Center
"Children everywhere will identify with this...readers will taste the culture..." - Dicken's Literature Log
"...a multicultural book in every sense of the word...simultaneously points out cultural differences and brings cultures together." - Multicultural Lit for Children and YA
"...who could resist learning to speak rooster in 5 languages?" - Marilyn T., Scarborough Public Library
"My Father’s Shop is a lighthearted and richly illustrated story which celebrates friendship - old and new - and the delightful possibilities that come from sharing culture and language. The spirited Mustafa is a loveable character who shows readers that having fun can be productive and educational." - PaperTigers
HARDCOVER ISBN: 978-1-929132-99-7
HARDCOVER ISBN-10: 1-929132-99-9
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