★Five-star rated book on Amazon Brazil! More than 100,000 copies have been sold in Brazil!
★Winner of the Best Children’s Book Award from the Brazilian National Book Foundation for Children and Youth (FNLIJ)!
★Winner of the Outstanding Children’s Book Award from the Brazilian Section of The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)!
★“My Greek Grandfather” was selected for the 2014 Bologna Book List!
★The Minister of Education of São Paulo, Brazil’s first city, included it in the Public Schools Government Program project!
★The Minister of Education of Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s third largest city, included it in the Public Schools Government Program project!
★The immigrants who came to Brazil brought with them not only clothes and homesickness, but also their own culture. When they settled here, they also taught us many of their own customs, so that we could understand and respect their traditional culture!
★Illustrated with distinctive regional and cultural characteristics. My experience with grandfather has taught “me”, and will teach young readers about the differences and wonders of the history, culture, food, language, art, customs, and humanities of different regions in different countries, and to gain an accurate knowledge and understanding of the cultural characteristics around the world.

The series includes 10 books:
“My Chinese Grandfather”
“My African Grandfather”
“My Arabian Grandfather”
“My Spanish Grandfather”
“My German Grandfather”
“My Jewish Grandfather”
“My Greek Grandfather”
“My Italian Grandfather”
“My Portuguese Grandfather”
“My Japanese Grandfather”

THE RICHNESS OF ARAB CULTURE BROUGHT TO BRAZIL
The immigrants who arrived in Brazil brought in their suitcase more than clothes and homesickness.
They brought much of the culture from their country. By establishing themselves here, they taught us about their customs and habits and helped us understand and respect their traditions.
In this book, Yasmin tells how she learned the history of the Arab people from her grandfather.
In the conversations, Jido explains why he came to Brazil, how he adapted to a new country and how he managed to maintain the customs and the Arab tradition. In this exciting story, grandfather and granddaughter show how important family relationship is to preserve cultural roots throughout generations.

FROM THE BOOK
“In some Arab countries, like Lebanon, there was no way a person could have a passport issued, so to come to Brazil, many immigrants had to travel to Turkey to get one. When they arrived here, they were identified as Turks. For a long time there was this confusion. Jido had a Syrian passport and was not happy to be called a Turk: he replied with words he never told me the meaning of. The only one I understood was “Carcamano”, which he shouted at the end of a sentence. The two fought, but deep down they liked each other very much. As immigrants, their stories were very similar.”

THE AUTHOR
Maísa Zakzuk was born in São Paulo in 1968. She studied radio and television at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP) and specialized in directing of children’s programs educational for television. She directed the programs X-Tudo and Rá-Tim-Bum Island, shown on TV Culture, and was director of the program Disney Channel’s Zapping Zone.

THE ILLUSTRATOR
Lúcia Brandão loves family’ stories. Her grandfather lived in a circus, and her grandmother, a tightrope walker, and actress, played drama to tell grandchildren stories of their French parents who came to Brazil bringing a whole circus! She decided to be a sketch artist at the age of seven.