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In Morocco, food has never been just food. It’s a grandmother’s hands, an afternoon stretching into golden hour, the couscous always ready, the mint tea poured with love, the table that is the heart of everything.<\/p>\n
Zarda follows Ali, the joyful, imaginative hero of Agafay Books, on his most delicious adventure yet: a nap at his grandmother’s house, where food becomes something far greater than what’s on the plate. Vivid illustrations bring his dream to life. A round bread becomes a car, a briouate folds into a plane, a Majhool date launches like a rocket, and a forest of broccoli stretches endlessly. In Ali’s imagination, the Moroccan table isn’t just a place to eat; it’s a universe to explore. At its heart, a glass of atay steams gently as Ali sips slowly, eyes closed, tasting something that belongs to us all.<\/p>\n
More than a children’s book, Zarda is a love letter to Moroccan food culture and the memory shared in every meal. Its name comes from “Zerda,” one of the great Melhoun poems by Houcine Toulali, a timeless ode to abundance and gathering around food. In a fast-moving world, this book invites families to pause and rediscover the richness that has always lived on their table. Because when a child sees a briouate as a plane and a date as a rocket, they are learning to love what their ancestors loved, and to carry that wonder forward.<\/p>\n
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Product Number:<\/strong> 25BB226 ISBN:<\/strong> 9789920251204 Format:<\/strong> 160 mm x 160 mm Pages:<\/strong> 24 pp Ages<\/strong> 2 years +<\/p>\n Every child has a grandmother’s house. A smell from the kitchen. A nap on a warm afternoon. And a voice that calls them back to the table just in time. Zarda<\/em> is that memory, given pages and color and life. It is the book that will make your child look at a briouate and smile, at a date and dream, at a bowl of couscous and feel, somewhere deep inside, that they belong to something beautiful.<\/p>\n Good health begins at the table. And the table begins at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_angie_page":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[125,134,126,138,133,135,132],"product_tag":[141,149,139,150,145,144,140,146],"class_list":["post-3419","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-babies-toddlers","product_cat-bilingual-reading","product_cat-children-4","product_cat-curiosity-thinking","product_cat-explore-discover","product_cat-identity-culture","product_cat-play-learn","product_tag-family","product_tag-heritage","product_tag-identity","product_tag-imagination","product_tag-morocco","product_tag-multilingual","product_tag-self-confidence","product_tag-story","first","onbackorder","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agafaybooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agafaybooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agafaybooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agafaybooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agafaybooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agafaybooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agafaybooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agafaybooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agafaybooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}