Zainab "Daby" Faidhi is a conceptual artist, illustrator, and architect. Her work spans animation, illustration, art direction, and painting. She has worked on several short film projects that have won international awards, as well as the Student Academy Award. Cartoon Saloon's The Breadwinner was her first feature film, where she took part in background painting, set props' design and conceptual art.

"A good picture book choice for libraries needing stories to help young readers build empathy and understanding of other cultures as well as connecting to their own experiences."--School Library Journal

"Mooz makes a cheerful, appealing narrator. . . . The mix of digital, charcoal, and pencil art easily complements Mooz's narrative approach, with vibrant colors and dynamic textures energizing scenes, while small visual cues--an "out of stock sign" and a war report on the television--place Mooz's experience within the upheaval of Iraq at that time"--The Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books