About Jirtdan’s Halloween
Help Your Children Build Intercultural Awareness This Halloween by Reading a Story Book with Just Enough Spookiness! Little Jirtdan and His Friends Decided to Celebrate Halloween in Disneyland! When They Lost Their Way on The Ghostly Halloween Night and Ended Up in an Ogre’s Castle, Jirtdan Used His Brains and Wits to Rescue Himself and His Friends. He Saved Everybody by Pushing The Ogre into Doing The Things He Never Did Before! With Catchy Illustrations, Folklore Characters, and an Exciting Story, “Jirtdan’s Halloween” Teaches Children to be Brave and Brainy, and Never Lose Hope Even When Facing Big Challenges. At The Same Time, The Story Introduces a New Culture, Some Old Halloween Superstitions And Fun Traditions!
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Author Bio:
Dr. Darya Hodaei is a pharmacist living in Miami with her husband and two kids . She is fluent in Azerbaijani, Turkish, English and Farsi (Persian) and began writing short stories when she was 9 years old. Growing up, she was deprived from having education in her own mother language (Azerbaijani). However, later in life she self-studied and learned how to write and read in her own native language when she became the mother of two young children. She saw how important it was for children to learn their own mother language in order to avoid identity problem in the future, a challenging issue she had experienced first-hand. As an immigrant parent she strongly believes preserving one’s rich ethnic culture especially mother language is a fundamental part of upbringing. To fulfill her commitment to this end, she decided to create “EnglishAzerbaijani” platform using visual aids and Azerbaijani and English equivalents to help children in bi-lingual and multi-lingual environments with their language development. Later, she decided to start publishing her stories for kids in English and Azerbaijani as a step towards encouraging parents and promoting the value of education in mother language.