A Farm Full of Feeling: Ajyaal Launches Everything Is Great on Our Farm

Some picture books entertain. Some teach. And some do something rarer: they quietly change the way a child looks at the world.

Ajyaal is proud to launch Everything Is Great on Our Farm, a bold, tender, and visually unforgettable new picture book by award-winning author and illustrator Maryam Mahmoudi Moghadam.

At first glance, this is a farm story. There are animals, games, movement, music, laughter, and the familiar rhythm of daily life. But beneath that lively surface, the book carries something much deeper: a child’s first lesson in noticing others.

Without preaching, explaining too much, or turning the story into a moral lecture, Everything Is Great on Our Farm invites young readers to ask a simple but powerful question:

What if everyone around me is feeling something I have not yet noticed?

This is where the book becomes more than beautiful. It becomes necessary.

Maryam Mahmoudi Moghadam’s artwork is instantly distinctive. Her animals are not decorative characters placed politely on the page. They are expressive, theatrical, slightly wild, and full of emotional tension. A goose stretches across the page with comic seriousness. A dog waits with tired eyes. A bull, a pig, a horse, chickens, cats, rabbits, and other farm companions all appear with vivid personality and visual force.

The result is a book children will want to look at again and again — not only to follow the story, but to read the faces, gestures, and silent signals hidden inside each spread.

That is the genius of this book.

It teaches social intelligence not through instruction, but through discovery. It asks children to pay attention: to a tired expression, a turned body, a quiet withdrawal, a changed tone, a small sign that says, “Maybe something is different here.”

For parents, teachers, librarians, and booksellers, this makes Everything Is Great on Our Farm a highly valuable read-aloud book. It opens natural conversations about empathy, boundaries, friendship, emotional awareness, and how to understand the people — and creatures — around us.

For children, it remains a funny, surprising, visually rich farm adventure.

That balance is exactly what we look for at Ajyaal.

We believe children deserve books that respect their intelligence. Books that do not simplify life until it becomes flat. Books that trust young readers to notice, wonder, laugh, question, and return to the page.

Everything Is Great on Our Farm does all of that. And the world has already noticed.

Before its Ajyaal edition reached readers, the artwork behind this book had already travelled through major international illustration platforms, earning recognition including the CCBF Golden Pinwheel People’s Choice Award in Shanghai, recognition at Bologna, and selection or finalist status across major children’s book and illustration showcases including Sharjah and iJungle.

That matters because this is not simply a nice book with nice drawings. This is a work with serious artistic pedigree. It carries the energy of international illustration, the emotional clarity of a strong child-centered story, and the publishing care of Ajyaal’s reading-level system.

The Arabic edition is designed for readers aged 6–9, within Ajyaal’s Transitional Reader level. It gives children a story they can grow into: accessible enough to enjoy, layered enough to discuss, and visually strong enough to remain memorable long after the last page.

No spoilers here. The pleasure of the book is in the turn: the moment the reader begins to realize that the farm may be more complicated than it first appears.

What we can say is this:

Everything Is Great on Our Farm is funny, strange, tender, and emotionally intelligent. It is a book about joy, but also about attention. About friendship, but also about space. About being loved, but also learning how to love others better.

It is the kind of picture book that works in a child’s hands, on a classroom carpet, in a library storytime, and on a collector’s shelf.

In other words: this book is a steal.

And honestly, you should have grabbed your copy yesterday.