Big red lollipop by rukhsana khan

She gets invited to her first birthday party, but she is not allowed to go unless she. Summary: Rubina is the oldest sister of a household with three girls.

Rubina turns her experience into wisdom and gains her mother's respect as a mediator between cultures. Publisher: Viking (a division of Penguin Group) ISBN: 9780670062874. But Khan's remarkable gift for balancing emotional honesty and empathy, and her keen understanding of family dynamics, keeps defeatism from swamping the book. ) subtly textured ink portrait shows every nuance of the girl's sense of social failure. ?”), then insistent that Rubina take her annoying younger sister along, even though Rubina pleads, “They don't do that here!” The result, in Khan's characteristically direct prose, is devastating: “I don't get any invitations for a really long time,” says Rubina, and Blackall's ( Wombat Walkabout When Rubina receives her first invitation to a birthday party, her mother, who readers are left to infer is an immigrant, is first perplexed (“What's a birthday party?. ) delivers another astute and moving story, ostensibly dealing with sibling rivalry, but actually about hard-won lessons emerging from clashes of identity and assimilation.