The LITTLE GARLIC COLORING BOOK is the companion to Little Garlic: Enchanted Tales for All Ages - a collection of timeless spiritual parables which provide a passageway to spiritual discovery for all ages, honoring a child's ability of knowing and engaging multiple levels of consciousness, the dream world, companionship, nature, and truth, while building a feeling of being at home in the universe with resilience from loss and suffering. About the Author Avideh Shashaani is the founder and president of the Fund for the Future of our Children (FFC), established in 1993 focusing on youth leadership for peace. In addition to its international peace projects, FFC ha developed curriculum on moral leadership called, "Speaking Truth: Watershed Moments in Global Leadership". Avideh Shashaani is the sixth annual recipient of the "Waging Peace" award instituted by former President Jimmy Carter. She is the author of three books of poetry: Tell Me Where To Be Born, Promised Paradise and Remember Me. Tell Me Where To Be Born focuses on violence against children around the world; the editor of Something Deeper Happened: Young Voices and the 2008 US Election with a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu; and, she has translated ten Sufi texts from Persian to English. Her poems have been featured in a one-hour program in the Library of Congress radio series for National Public Radio stations. Her poetry and articles have also appeared in anthologies, books and journals, including the Catholic magazines Radical Grace and Oneing, the Spirituality in Clinical Practice journal of the American Psychological Association, and a book by Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund. She was the first co-director of the International Institute for Rehabilitation in Developing Countries founded by the UN, UNESCO, ILO, WHO and UNDP. She was appointed by the UN Secretary General to the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on the "Socio-Economic Implication of Investments in Rehabilitation of the Disabled." She has lectured on the various aspects of Islam and Sufism at universities including Georgetown University, University of Maryland, Trinity College, California State University at Sacramento and St. Mary's College. She has also lectured on Islam and Sufism at non-academic forums. These include the Goethe Institute, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Siam Society in Bangkok, and the United Nations Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna, Austria. Born in Teheran, Iran, Shashaani spent much of her childhood in Washington, D. C. where her father was a diplomat.