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

Look Inside the Remarkable Trilingual Picture Book, 'Daniel and Ismail'

A remarkable multilingual picture book, Daniel and Ismail tells the story of a Jewish boy and a Palestinian boy who grow up in separate communities and become friends by chance on the soccer field. Each boy’s family is upset at the news, yet the power of conversation and play helps the boys overcome their differences. To amplify this message of unity, we have translated the book from Juan Pablo Iglesias’ Spanish into English (translated by Ilan Stavans), Hebrew (translated by Eliezer Nowodworski and Frieda Press-Danieli), and Arabic (translated by Randa Sayegh). See this remarkable layout in the gallery below, as set against Alex Peris’ beautiful illustrations.

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Copa America Centenario Offer: Get 20% off God is Round, by Juan Villoro

For the soccer fans among us, this June is a very special time: it's the Copa America Centenario—the hundredth anniversary of the Americas' oldest soccer competition, which is being hosted in the United States for the first time ever. Kicking off tonight with USA vs. Colombia, the 32 matches of the tournament will bring the biggest stars in the Western Hemisphere to 10 American cities. Whether you're a diehard fan or a football neophyte, there is one book we (along with The Boston Globe, The Spectator, and NBC News) heartily recommend as a guide: Mexican author Juan Villoro's God Is Round: Tackling the Giants, Villains, Triumphs, and Scandals of the World's Favorite Game.

To celebrate the Copa America Centenario and Juan Villoro's book, we're offering 20% off God Is Round through the end of the tournament, June 26th. Just click the "Buy from Restless" button on the book page and enter the discount code "COPA" at checkout.

"Copa America Centenario, an exciting mix of soccer talent, arrogance, and nationalism, is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to see stars from across the continent like Lionel Messi, Alexis Sánchez, and Radamel Falcao happily play not for money but for country. I got my tickets months ago to go with with family and friends. I also bought them all copies of Juan Villoro's magnificent book God Is Round. For those who complain that fútbol, unlike baseball, doesn't produce great literature, here's the perfect antidote: this book shows you not only why "jogo bonito" is what truly brings the Americas together, but it also proves that the beautiful game has a rich history worthy of One Hundred Years of Solitude."

—Ilan Stavans, publisher of Restless Books