Thank You Daniel & Ismail Backers!

After a year of intense editing, translation, and production, Daniel and Ismail has finally taken the field! We are so grateful to our generous backers who have been with us since the beginning of this multilingual journey and are eager to share this important book with you!

Daniel and Ismail is a one-of-a-kind, uplifting picture book about a Jewish boy and a Palestinian boy who bond on the soccer field—translated into English, Hebrew, and Arabic. We wouldn’t have been able to complete this daunting project without the support of our backers on Kickstarter. Thank you for supporting Restless in our mission to bring global literature to English-reading children, middle graders, and young adults. We believe that now more than ever it is important to share literature that celebrates, not depreciates, our similarities and our differences.

Thank you to the following backers who supported this publication:

Benjamin Jacobi, Anonymous, Paul Ryan, Anonymous, Robert Boscacci, Nneka Bolden, Barbara Chan, Anonymous, Elaine Reese, Kendall, Christopher O'Rourke, Andrea Blaauw, Naomi Firestone-Teeter, Bradley Hercman, Benjamin Samuel, Cantors George & Ricki Henschel, Shawnta Dodson, Farid Zhafri bin Mohd Zaid, K.A. Cummins, Heather Whittaker, Nick Gutierrez, Carlos Torres, Marian Rader, Heather Yoder, Gina Weber, Anjelica Ruiz, Anna Knutson, Scout O'Gara, Morgan A. Dedmon, Nanda Dyssou, Laurence Shapiro, Sophia Far, Laurel Levitan, Emily Somberg, Sevrina Flores, Stephen Sadow, Max Ubelaker Andrade, Megan Sullivan, Cathy Ries Neal, Naomi Sinnreich, Camille Lofters, Ben Nichols, Fatima Iqbal, Ilana Bittner, Noel Schornhorst, Thomas Hoffmann, Matt Bucher, Scott Junkins, Colin Legerton, Dan Landau, Bilal Ali, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Eleanor Lamb, Margo, Mick Pickup, Eugene Mundol, Juan Pablo Iglesias Yacher, Joshua Mikutis, Martin Miller, Harold Augenbraum, Rose Mary Salum, Zack Ham, Merry Arnold, Sam Bett, Cindi Hickman, Donald Kudler, Mauricio Dorfman, Rachel Rodnyansky, Dean Whitehead, Kristen Neff, Jacob Craycroft, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anna Li, Joan Gore, Diane Baer, Daniel Weinberg, Terry Segal, Hongwoo Lee, Matthew Zapruder, Zehra Karim, Anthony Eaton, Barbara Rothblatt, Amelia Gersema, Ebrahim Al-Bishri, Stanford Brown, Tegan Tigani, Richard Hurowitz, Susan Miron, Charles Dee Mitchell, David Smith, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Margot Atwell, The Creative Fund, Melissa Moxie, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, F.D. Toussaint, Pamela Rostron, Natalie Grand, Eric Damon Walters, Isaac ‘Will It Work’ Dansicker, Anonymous, Dinah Lenney, Kim, Ilan Stavans, Anonymous, Molly Antopol

Explore the creative world of Who Left the Light On?

We are thrilled to share some of the captivating illustrations from the first picture book in our Yonder imprint, Who Left the Light On? by Richard Marnier and illustrated by Aude Maurel. Who Left the Light On? is a visually stunning celebration of diversity in a community where creativity is given a free rein and acceptance is the order of the day.

This delightful picture book is about a uniform, monotonous village where all the neighbors follow the same rules of how their homes should look and when it’s okay to turn on the lights—until one day someone decides to turn on the lights at the “wrong” time. This one small act of independence soon shocks others into diverging from the norm and experimenting with their own ideas about design and decor. As the village explodes into color and the neighbors learn to artistically express to their cultural and artistic differences, Marnier’s world will light a spark of empathy and acceptance in young readers.

Artist Aude Maurel’s angular, unvaried images eventually burst into a lively abundance of bamboo huts, shoe-shaped barns, and glitzy palaces—all of which coexist in a state of good-natured neighborly cheer and are sure to enthrall kids and adults alike.

We are especially grateful for the generous support of Katharyn Dawson who sponsored the publication of Who Left the Light On? in honor of her mother’s ninety-fifth birthday. To learn more about sponsoring a Restless book, click here.