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Leila and the Voice

Author Shahrzad Maydani
Hardcover
$18.99 US
Penguin Young Readers | Kokila
10"W x 9"H | 20 oz | 24 per carton
On sale Jul 22, 2025 | 40 Pages | 9780593620373
Age 4-8 years | Preschool - 3
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A modern fable about a young girl who embarks on a journey to overcome fear and meets a supernatural creature along the way, for readers of Looking for a Jumbie and Where the Wild Things Are.

When the angry cloud comes... Leila runs. The cloud grows and grows, and Leila walks deeper and deeper into its depths. Then she hears a voice. Underneath all the cloudiness is a spot of light. Leila works to dig the Voice out bit by bit, until she has a companion to walk with. 

Whether drawing them a map for when they get lost or creating a net for when they fall, Leila's finally able to soar with the Voice into a world of technicolor light. But will it be enough for them to complete their voyage home? 

Leila and the Voice is a picture book about the journeys we start, the fear we face, and the courage we grow into as we learn that we've had what we needed all along to face what scares us.
Shahrzad Maydani is an award-winning illustrator of Iranian English descent. Her debut children’s book, Poetree, written by Shauna LaVoy Reynolds, received the Crystal Kite Award and was selected for the Spring 2019 Kids Indie Next List. Her following book, Bird Boy, written by Matthew Burgess, was a Junior Library Guild selection; and Francis Discovers Possible, written by Ashlee Latimer, was named one of the Best Children's Books of the Year by Banks Street College of Education. View titles by Shahrzad Maydani

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A modern fable about a young girl who embarks on a journey to overcome fear and meets a supernatural creature along the way, for readers of Looking for a Jumbie and Where the Wild Things Are.

When the angry cloud comes... Leila runs. The cloud grows and grows, and Leila walks deeper and deeper into its depths. Then she hears a voice. Underneath all the cloudiness is a spot of light. Leila works to dig the Voice out bit by bit, until she has a companion to walk with. 

Whether drawing them a map for when they get lost or creating a net for when they fall, Leila's finally able to soar with the Voice into a world of technicolor light. But will it be enough for them to complete their voyage home? 

Leila and the Voice is a picture book about the journeys we start, the fear we face, and the courage we grow into as we learn that we've had what we needed all along to face what scares us.

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Shahrzad Maydani is an award-winning illustrator of Iranian English descent. Her debut children’s book, Poetree, written by Shauna LaVoy Reynolds, received the Crystal Kite Award and was selected for the Spring 2019 Kids Indie Next List. Her following book, Bird Boy, written by Matthew Burgess, was a Junior Library Guild selection; and Francis Discovers Possible, written by Ashlee Latimer, was named one of the Best Children's Books of the Year by Banks Street College of Education. View titles by Shahrzad Maydani

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