New Releases by David Kherdian

Writing from his home in the hills of Black Mountain, poet David Kherdian shares his thoughts on the pandemic of 2020 through simple, unobtrusive verses- providing grace, prayer, and deliverance for all those in need.

Abraza cada día por completo... Cada día nos trae nuevos sentimientos, algunos son felices, otros son tristes. Unos días nos enfadamos mucho y otros estamos confusos. Hay días en los que estamos exactamente donde queremos estar, otros días puede que no. Sin embargo, no importa lo que esté pasando, siempre es importante enfocarse en lo que está ocurriendo... AHORA MISMO. Lecciones sobre la atención plena y la autorreflexión El ganador de la Medalla Newbery, David Kherdian, y la dos veces galardonada con la Medalla Caldecott, Nonny Hogrogian, han creado un clásico con el que cualquier niño puede identificarse. Tanto si es un buen día, jugando en el patio trasero haciendo pasteles de barro, como si no lo es, discutiendo con tu mejor amigo, David y Nonny ofrecen una amplia perspectiva para meditar en el ahora. Sea que se cuente antes de dormir o lo lea solo un joven lector, AHORA MISMO sin duda ayudará a que incluso los niños más ansiosos o preocupados aprendan a abrazar el momento y a dejar de lado las preocupaciones.

After scraping her knee during recess, a young girl is sent home to rest from her injury. Along the way, she strikes up conversation everyone that she meets, including a squirrel, the clouds, the trees, and some stones. A tale of mindfulness from Newbery Award winner David Kherdian and two-time Caldecott winner Nonny Hogrogian... Husband-wife writing team David and Nonny have done it again with their classic tale of mindfulness...if we open our ears wide enough, we can hear the gentle voices of everything that all around us and within us. We don''t need to be distracted by smartphones to feel happy in our own skins. Just like the main character of BY MYSELF, we have the power to calm our anxieties and overcome our sadness by getting to know our own feelings. A story to soothe our souls in these uncertain times... Great reading for any one aged 4 up to 94. No matter how old you are or what you are going through in life, the sweet prose, beautful illustrations, and focus on finding inner peace are sure to warm your soul.

Poet David Kherdian describes the day to day activities of a cat as he moves from the countryside to the big city. Beautiful woodcuts complement the elegantly simple verses of this collection. In a world where everything is hustle and bustle, COUNTRY CAT CITY CAT will remind even the most stressed or anxious among us to focus on the simpler things in life. From ages 9 to 99, there are nuggets of wisdom for all in this book.

Poet David Kherdian offers a retelling of poems and songs drawn from ancient Armenian texts that describe nature''s unique relationship with humanity. These songs and poems contain a glimpse into characteristically humble yet troubled world outlook. Upon reading these deeply intimate writings, we tap into out collective faith and draw from that place in us that is reserved for the essential and true--from our own unspoiled reservoir of spirit, that understands what has been lost and can yet be regained.

James Willard Schultz was the first white man to penetrate the Blackfeet tribe, participating in their rituals, buffalo hunts, horse trading and stealing, all the while keeping notes, with the intention of one day recording their history. When his wife died he left the tribe and moved to California, where he began to write stories, novels and memoirs of his time with the Blackfeet Indians of Montana. This biography of his early years with the tribe is an outstanding adventure story and also a love story of two people, who are strangers to each other at the start, but grow in understanding and love through their devotion to one another.

In this short captivating memoir, Kherdian takes us on his long journey to become a writer: a journey of self-discovery and deliverance to a life he could not believe he would ever achieve. Following him, we often forget what he is searching for, but what does become apparent are the revealing patterns of his life that unfold uncontrollably, as determined by his fate, that he must uncover before he can realize his true destiny. This little book, a writer''s testimony, also becomes a reader''s story, as we move through and beyond Kherdian to find where each of us stands, for none of us can avoid the journey of our lives, and why we turn to artists, whose visions often provide a lens by which we can see ourselves.

In his long anticipated poetic memoir, internationally acclaimed author and poet David Kherdian continues his poetic reflections, focusing on the city of his youth, Racine, Wisconsin during the 1930''s and 40''s. The poems and prose explore the bittersweet childhood and adolescence of the now 84-year-old author: a time when the second generation of Armenian-Americans experienced not only the Depression and the war years, but also the anguish of dual identity, deracination, and discrimination. Meanwhile their impoverished parents, mostly peasants from the old country, were going through the trauma of genocide memories and survival in a strange land. The poems and prose of Root River Return spring from an ancient tradition and bear its stain. The poems are filtered through Kherdian''s sensibilities that are uniquely Armenian, but welded to an American tongue and the solid background of his Midwestern beginnings. Kherdian addresses his life through these poems, digging beneath the events of each experience, pushing them into the light, and revealing their meanings.

Called one of the great epics of world literature, David of Sassoun dates back to the 9th century. It was first recorded in the 1870s by Armenian clerics.

A sleepless bear hides the moon, much to the displeasure of his forest animal friends who miss dancing under its light in this new picture book by a Newbery Honoree and a two-time Caldecott Medalist. Full color.

David Kherdian re-creates his mother''s voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.

A classic of Chinese literature, this beloved folktale is part adventure story, part spiritual allegory—now reimagined by a National Book Award nominee Part spiritual pilgrimage, part historical epic, the folk novel Journey to the West, which came to be known as Monkey, is the most popular classic of Asian literature. Originally written in the sixteenth century, it is the story of the adventures of the rogue-trickster Monkey and his encounters with a bizarre cast of characters as he travels to India with the Buddhist pilgrim Tripitaka in search of sacred scriptures. Much more than a picaresque adventure novel, Monkey is a profound allegory of the struggle that must occur before spiritual transformation is possible. David Kherdian''s masterful telling brings this classic of Chinese literature to life in a way that is true to the scope and depth of the original.

In Letters to My Father, poet and storyteller David Kherdian expands the possibilities of poetry through his sensitive exploration and investigation of the joyous and sad, tumultous and transcendent relationship he shared with his father. He illuminates the cool distance and the warm intimacy that defines the relationship between fathers and sons. This is an excellent Father''s Day poetry selection.

An award-winning author''s uncompromising and brutally honest inside story of the powerful Gurdjieff Work of self-transformation. Offers a stirring account of spiritual transformation, as well as a warning of the real dangers inherent in being a member of any spiritual group Acclaimed author David Kherdian tells us the inside story of the powerful Gurdjieff Work of self-transformation. He describes his interaction with the hierarchy of various groups involved in the Work and tells the inspiring story of his own awakening that will resonate deeply with anyone involved in disciplined spiritual practice. Drawing on his own decades of intense study and application of Gurdjieff''s philosophy, Kherdian offers us a stirring account of spiritual transformation, as well as a warning of the real dangers inherent in being a member of any spiritual group.

Only the courage of the beautiful Farizad is able to bring happiness out of the evil deeds of her mother''s two jealous older sisters.

While trying to make it through elementary school in Racine, Wisconsin, a thirteen-year-old Armenian American boy must come to terms with his heritage, his parents'' expectations, and his own uncertainty about what he wants from life.

A young boy relates his special friendship with his Armenian uncle.

The author relates his experiences and explores the joys and difficulties of growing up as a first-generation American in an Armenian household.

Two boys discover a cache of jewelry in the woods, are laughed at by the police, and determine to capture a thief themselves.

Despite his family''s objection, a cricket develops a friendship with a grasshopper.

When Ted and Joe return to the McCable river on a camping trip, they secretly hope to contact a hermit living in a nearby cave.

Includes twenty-five selections by contemporary poets.