Name: Nasreddine
ISBN: 9780802854162

Odile Weulersse

Kathleen Merz

As Nasreddine and his father take dates, wool, chickens, or watermelon to market, people tease them no matter who is riding their donkey, and this causes Nasreddine embarrassment until his father helps him to understand.

Nasreddine

Nadine 

#perspective #caring #confidence
Sometimes you get just the books you need pop up in your life. I've been slowly going through a huge pile of new picture books, because I don't want them to just disappear into the masses on the shelves and be lost forever. So I'm trying to make sure they hit the resource lists they need to hit and get the attention they deserve.
Today Nasreddine was one of them, and it was a story that I needed to read. One is often filled with self-doubt at events and comments toss one this way and that, and it's hard to keep treading a path that you hope is right while the 'peanut gallery' do everything to sway the confidence. This is a book about doing what you do without being overly influenced by silly comments or ideas and to "stay the path" as a wise father lets his son fail time and again and in the end realise that whatever he does someone will have a comment or criticism and he's best off making up his own mind. 

A great book for librarians, because we're always being told whatever we do we could or should be doing something else!