Alligator and Other Stories Julie Murphy completed just days before Smuts’s

completed just days before Smuts’s unexpected death in 2016

with fun activities and cool card press-outs to make and create

277 Facts to Knock Your Socks Off

is a reprehensible rake with an axe to grind

and the princess Theti-Cheri

Alligator and Other Stories Julie Murphy completed just days before Smuts’sIn Alligator and Other Stories, Dima Alzayat captures luminously how it feels to be 'other': as a Syrian, as an Arab, as an immigrant, as a woman. Each one of the nine stories collected here is a snapshot of those moments when unusual circumstances suddenly distinguish us from our neighbors, when our difference is thrown into relief. Here are 'dangerous' women transgressing, missing children in 1970s New York, a family who were once Syrian but have