New Releases by David Kherdian

What is it like to come as a stranger to a new country and adapt to another culture without losing your own? For the Armenians who fled the Genocide in the early part of the 20th century. Those fortunate enough to make it to America were forced to adapt to a new home while attempting to maintain their identity. Renowned Armenian-American author David Kherdian recalls growing up in the Midwestern city of Racine and all the characters his family encountered. To Live Again is a poignant story told through poetry of the Armenian diaspora and the struggles to find a new place to set down roots. This is an important piece of art of marginalized and sometimes forgotten people who endured many hardships but became a vital part of Racine''s history.

Writing from his home in the hills of Black Mountain, poet David Kherdian shares his thoughts on the pandemic of 2020 through simple, unobtrusive verses- providing grace, prayer, and deliverance for all those in need.

Abraza cada día por completo... Cada día nos trae nuevos sentimientos, algunos son felices, otros son tristes. Unos días nos enfadamos mucho y otros estamos confusos. Hay días en los que estamos exactamente donde queremos estar, otros días puede que no. Sin embargo, no importa lo que esté pasando, siempre es importante enfocarse en lo que está ocurriendo... AHORA MISMO. Lecciones sobre la atención plena y la autorreflexión El ganador de la Medalla Newbery, David Kherdian, y la dos veces galardonada con la Medalla Caldecott, Nonny Hogrogian, han creado un clásico con el que cualquier niño puede identificarse. Tanto si es un buen día, jugando en el patio trasero haciendo pasteles de barro, como si no lo es, discutiendo con tu mejor amigo, David y Nonny ofrecen una amplia perspectiva para meditar en el ahora. Sea que se cuente antes de dormir o lo lea solo un joven lector, AHORA MISMO sin duda ayudará a que incluso los niños más ansiosos o preocupados aprendan a abrazar el momento y a dejar de lado las preocupaciones.

After scraping her knee during recess, a young girl is sent home to rest from her injury. Along the way, she strikes up conversation everyone that she meets, including a squirrel, the clouds, the trees, and some stones. A tale of mindfulness from Newbery Award winner David Kherdian and two-time Caldecott winner Nonny Hogrogian... Husband-wife writing team David and Nonny have done it again with their classic tale of mindfulness...if we open our ears wide enough, we can hear the gentle voices of everything that all around us and within us. We don''t need to be distracted by smartphones to feel happy in our own skins. Just like the main character of BY MYSELF, we have the power to calm our anxieties and overcome our sadness by getting to know our own feelings. A story to soothe our souls in these uncertain times... Great reading for any one aged 4 up to 94. No matter how old you are or what you are going through in life, the sweet prose, beautful illustrations, and focus on finding inner peace are sure to warm your soul.

We are the moments that shape us... Every conversation, every minute on the job, every daydream, every chance encounter--these moments all add up to something much greater than the sum of their parts. If cultivated properly, each of these disjointed moments can spark magic within and help us become who we are truly meant to be in this world. In Becoming a Writer, David Kherdian lays out some selected memories, moments, and places in time that proved critical in shaping his soul as an editor, poet, and writer. We all have a story tell... David captures the magic of each moment of life and encourages us all to do the same. From his early childhood memories walking up and down the streets of Racine, Wisconsin with his gang of friends to crushing disappointment at the hands of overly critical school teachers... From his days as a door-to-door magazine salesman all the way to Japan on the eve of the war in Korea... From a stint compiling the works of the Beat Poets in San Francisco to decoding the raw emotion contained in his mother''s own memoirs... Becoming a Writer is more than just a memoir. In detailing the defining moments of his life, David Kherdian also provides us with a guide to help capture the magic within our own lives, put it to paper, and ultimately share it with the world.

Follow your dreams...no matter what... One day, Juna sees a dream that he knows will lead him to where he needs to be. The only problem is that the dream is so cryptic, he doesn''t even know where to start. But that doesn''t stop him. With help from new friends that he makes along the way, Juna pushes forward, inch by inch, until he and his realize what his dream was all about. From award-winning husband and wife team David and Nonny JUNA''S JOURNEY is a timeless fable told by Newbery award winner David Kherdian and lovingly illustrated by two-time Caldecott Medalist Nonny Hogrogian. Besides being a fun bedtime story, JUNA''S JOURNEY teaches the importance of working together in teams.

Poet David Kherdian describes the day to day activities of a cat as he moves from the countryside to the big city. Beautiful woodcuts complement the elegantly simple verses of this collection. In a world where everything is hustle and bustle, COUNTRY CAT CITY CAT will remind even the most stressed or anxious among us to focus on the simpler things in life. From ages 9 to 99, there are nuggets of wisdom for all in this book.

After painstaking preparations with his friend Sammy, Jason enters the big fishing contest and follows a plan to discover where the biggest fish in the pond are hiding.

Poet David Kherdian offers a retelling of poems and songs drawn from ancient Armenian texts that describe nature''s unique relationship with humanity. These songs and poems contain a glimpse into characteristically humble yet troubled world outlook. Upon reading these deeply intimate writings, we tap into out collective faith and draw from that place in us that is reserved for the essential and true--from our own unspoiled reservoir of spirit, that understands what has been lost and can yet be regained.

Embrace every day to its fullest... Everyday brings new feelings - some are happy, some are sad. Some days we may get really angry and other days confused. Some days we are exactly where we want to be, others days maybe not. But, no matter what is going on, it''s always important to focus on what is happening RIGHT NOW.

In Black Mountain Home, David Kherdian returns to his poetic roots with a collection that truly captures the essence of what it means to be alive. Drawing inspiration from the lush mountainscapes of North Carolina, he takes the reader on an unforgettable backwoods sojourn as he describes nature''s raw pureness with elegant simplicity.

Awakening is about capturing the heart of those moments in our lives that impress our deepest feelings, with vivifying details that act as a mirror to stir our conscience. David Kherdian''s work is clean and spare, and leaves the reader with an abiding sense of their own reality. His poetry exists in the mystic tradition of American poets such as Thoreau and Walt Whitman, poets who are often misunderstood in their own time.

James Willard Schultz was the first white man to penetrate the Blackfeet tribe, participating in their rituals, buffalo hunts, horse trading and stealing, all the while keeping notes, with the intention of one day recording their history. When his wife died he left the tribe and moved to California, where he began to write stories, novels and memoirs of his time with the Blackfeet Indians of Montana. This biography of his early years with the tribe is an outstanding adventure story and also a love story of two people, who are strangers to each other at the start, but grow in understanding and love through their devotion to one another.

David Kherdian has given us his finest, most complete, and undoubtedly final book on his Midwestern hometown. Here we have in fifty odd "chapters" the places, people, artifacts, and events, as experienced by the people of Racine during the long middle years of the last century, in a luminous way that will provide an awakening for all who were there, and not just the people of Racine, but all Americans, especially those in America''s rust belt. This is the universal story of our country during a defining period of our history, when we were living the promise of America, at its egalitarian best, as a model for ourselves and a promise to the world.

In this short captivating memoir, Kherdian takes us on his long journey to become a writer: a journey of self-discovery and deliverance to a life he could not believe he would ever achieve. Following him, we often forget what he is searching for, but what does become apparent are the revealing patterns of his life that unfold uncontrollably, as determined by his fate, that he must uncover before he can realize his true destiny. This little book, a writer''s testimony, also becomes a reader''s story, as we move through and beyond Kherdian to find where each of us stands, for none of us can avoid the journey of our lives, and why we turn to artists, whose visions often provide a lens by which we can see ourselves.

This title is the first in a five-part chapbook series of essential selections from acclaimed poet David Kherdian''s vast catalog of poems written over the past 50 years. David Kherdian Poems 1 surveys Kherdian''s first three full-length poetry titles: On the Death of My Father (1968), Homage to Adana (1970) and Looking Over Hills (1972), all originally published by The Giligia Press.Kherdian''s work comes from silence, was written in silence, and leaves silence in its wake. His poetry concentrates on small details in a large landscape--a cat sleeping on a bed, moss growing on the base of a tree, a grasshopper on a twig. Instead of trying frantically to rearrange reality, the poet calls attention to it, in a soft voice.

In his long anticipated poetic memoir, internationally acclaimed author and poet David Kherdian continues his poetic reflections, focusing on the city of his youth, Racine, Wisconsin during the 1930''s and 40''s. The poems and prose explore the bittersweet childhood and adolescence of the now 84-year-old author: a time when the second generation of Armenian-Americans experienced not only the Depression and the war years, but also the anguish of dual identity, deracination, and discrimination. Meanwhile their impoverished parents, mostly peasants from the old country, were going through the trauma of genocide memories and survival in a strange land. The poems and prose of Root River Return spring from an ancient tradition and bear its stain. The poems are filtered through Kherdian''s sensibilities that are uniquely Armenian, but welded to an American tongue and the solid background of his Midwestern beginnings. Kherdian addresses his life through these poems, digging beneath the events of each experience, pushing them into the light, and revealing their meanings.

Called one of the great epics of world literature, David of Sassoun dates back to the 9th century. It was first recorded in the 1870s by Armenian clerics.

A sleepless bear hides the moon, much to the displeasure of his forest animal friends who miss dancing under its light in this new picture book by a Newbery Honoree and a two-time Caldecott Medalist. Full color.

Poetry. LIVING IN QUIET is the long anticipated volume of selected poems by David Kherdian. This collection is comprised of selections from David Kherdian''s 22 previously published poetry volumes, as well as new poems.