Musiad USA "Independent Industrialists and Businessmen Association" & KAGEM DCA Presents
Community Storytime for Kids
"Big Red Lollipop" by Award winning Children's Author & Storyteller Rukhsana Khan.

March 25th at 2pm
Cultural Center Auditorum
Diyanet Center of America
Special gift to all our young guests, plus book signing!

Bake Sale for our "Neighborhood Kitchen" project
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About the Author:
Born in Lahore, Pakistan and immigrated to Canada at the age of three, she grew up in a small town in southern Ontario and was ruthlessly bullied. Drugs were against her religion (so was suicide) so she turned to books and became hopelessly addicted to the written word!

When a grade eight teacher told her she was a writer, she thought the idea was crazy. Writers were white people. They were from England and America. To be ‘sensible’ she graduated from college at the top of her class as a biological-chemical technician.

When she couldn’t get a decent job she decided to be ‘unsensible’ and become a writer. It took eight years to get her first book published.

Now she has twelve books published (one of which was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the 100 greatest children's books in the last 100 years). Some of her books have been published in other countries and in different languages.

She has appeared on television and radio lots of times, and has been featured at conferences and festivals around the world. She lives in Toronto with her husband and family. External Event Url
Diyanet Center of America
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