Saffron Ice Creamby Rashin Kheiriyeh; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary    Levine/Scholastic    40 pp.5/18    978-1-338-15052-0    $17.99Kheiriyeh delivers an entertaining, heartfelt story based on her own childhood memories of family outings to the beach. Young narrator Rashin compares the beach in her birthplace of Iran to the beach in her new home...

Yo Soy Muslim: A Father’s Letter to His Daughterby Mark Gonzales; illus. by Mehrdokht AminiPrimary    Salaam/Simon    32 pp.8/17    978-1-4814-8936-2    $17.99e-book ed.  978-1-4814-8937-9    $10.99Gonzales pens an honest, heartfelt text about the beauty of cultural identity, a loving, compassionate exhortation to his daughter to embrace all that she is. Although written in...