Baba Palooza

A. D. Ghani is a writer and elementary school teacher in Illinois. She is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright grant and a second-place winner in the 2021 Illinois Emerging Writers statewide poetry contest. When not writing, she can be found either learning everything she can about anything she can or sitting in amazement at the fact that someone, somewhere, is reading a bio about her in her debut book. Nadia Alam is a Bangladeshi Canadian illustrator and avid daydreamer. She has illustrated many books, including The Wishing Machine, Awake, Asleep, Many Things at Once, and The House Without Lights. When she’s not drawing, you can find her zooming around Toronto with her two lovely kids and dog, Momo.

***STARRED REVIEW***“In a touching picture book, Ghani and Alam craft an exuberant ode to a working father’s love…Bright, thin-lined illustrations incorporate the taxi’s signature hue and images of the car on a proscenium stage in this powerfully affectionate portrait of care that goes two ways.”