Name: Lucine Kasbarian
Biographical Information: Armenian-American author Lucine Kasbarian has worked as an editor and writer for consumer and trade magazines in NYC, and as a publicist for a variety of book publishers and authors. She is the author of The Greedy Sparrow: An Armenian Tale (Marshall Cavendish) and Armenia: A Rugged Land, an Enduring People (Dillon Press/ Simon & Schuster). Lucine and her husband, writer David Boyajian, live in Massachusetts and New Jersey.
Featured Book: The Greedy Sparrow: An Armenian Tale. Once there was and was not a sparrow who caught a thorn in his foot. When a kind baker removed the thorn, the sparrow tricked her into giving him some bread. Each time the sparrow met new people, he tricked them out of bigger and better things. Does the sparrow’s greed get the best of him?
Titles of Books in Print:
The Greedy Sparrow: An Armenian Tale
Armenia: A Rugged Land, an Enduring People
Age Group of Materials published: Elementary
Honors:
Armenia: A Rugged Land, an Enduring People was selected as one of the Bank Street Best Books of the Year.