Review Source: Notes from an Islamic School Librarian Book Author: This joyful 32-page picture book is both adorable and educational. Layers of Hajj and Zamzam threaded through with the global reach of Islam, generosity, food, language, and a little girl with a big smile brightening every encounter, is heartfelt and tender. Each reading has me smiling […]
Everything Grows in Jiddo’s Garden
Review Source: Notes from an Islamic School Librarian Book Author: This sweetly illustrated 32-page rhyming book starts off introducing a little girl living in one place and having a home in Palestine that she has never been to, but loves. The book then becomes pretty universal with her and her grandfather talking about what grows, his […]
Escape from Aleppo
Review by Islamic School Librarian Review Source: Islamic School Librarian Book Author: N.H. Senzai’s newest book (published in January 2018), gives a face and a voice to the grave situation in Syria. Like Senzai’s other books, she uses the rich culture and history of a country to inform the reader, and a compelling front story […]
Sitti’s Secrets
Reviewed by Kirin Review Source: Notes from an Islamic School Librarian Book Author: (Note: This review was posted on February 2, 2017, just days after a gunman opened fire at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City on January 29. Six worshippers were killed and five others were seriously injured.) Sitti’s Secrets was published in 1994 […]