R is for Ramadan
$7.99
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- Options available
- Illustrator:
- Greg Paprocki
- Publisher:
- BabyLit
- Format:
- Board Book
- Language:
- English
- Age Range:
- Pre-K - 2nd Level (2-5 Years)
- Grade Level:
- preschool
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A fun alphabet primer celebrating the month-long Muslim observance of fasting and spiritual awareness.
Ramadan is a month-long observance when Muslims all over the world spend more time with each other, emphasize charitable works, fast, pray, and break their daily fast each night together. It’s a time meant to focus on things such as sharing, empathy, compassion, generosity, and selflessness. These ideals are wonderfully illustrated here in Greg Paprocki’s inimitable style for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet.
This book is fabulously fun, but incredibly puzzling. The book without a glossary is presumably meant for Muslim children, with words like U is for Umrah and T is for Tasbeeh, and N is for Night of Power. Which is interesting, because it seems to be written by a non Muslim, who writes and illustrates a lot of various alphabet books, and published by a mainstream company. I’m sure this adorable book will appeal to many non Muslims but after reading it, I’m fairly certain they will be 80% clueless as to what most of the letters are about. Maybe they would be able to make a guess based on the pictures, but with the pronunciation for Arabic words being given underneath, it sure makes for an odd juxtaposition in a toddler board book. Additionally, if you are Muslim reading the book and can describe the Arabic to your 3-5 year old, you will possibly have to explain some of the “big” English words too. H is for Hospitality, G is for Generous, O is for Obligation. Thrown in are also some completely silly, random letter prompts. W is for Watermelon and Y is for Yay. So, I probably shouldn’t like this book, but it is an absolute delight to look at and read through if you can account for all the aforementioned things. The illustrations are engaging and detailed and oh so happy and fun. The book feels good in your hands reading it with a little one snuggled up beside you at 8.5 x 6.5 and 32 thick pages long.
Ramadan is a month-long observance when Muslims all over the world spend more time with each other, emphasize charitable works, fast, pray, and break their daily fast each night together. It’s a time meant to focus on things such as sharing, empathy, compassion, generosity, and selflessness. These ideals are wonderfully illustrated here in Greg Paprocki’s inimitable style for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet.
This book is fabulously fun, but incredibly puzzling. The book without a glossary is presumably meant for Muslim children, with words like U is for Umrah and T is for Tasbeeh, and N is for Night of Power. Which is interesting, because it seems to be written by a non Muslim, who writes and illustrates a lot of various alphabet books, and published by a mainstream company. I’m sure this adorable book will appeal to many non Muslims but after reading it, I’m fairly certain they will be 80% clueless as to what most of the letters are about. Maybe they would be able to make a guess based on the pictures, but with the pronunciation for Arabic words being given underneath, it sure makes for an odd juxtaposition in a toddler board book. Additionally, if you are Muslim reading the book and can describe the Arabic to your 3-5 year old, you will possibly have to explain some of the “big” English words too. H is for Hospitality, G is for Generous, O is for Obligation. Thrown in are also some completely silly, random letter prompts. W is for Watermelon and Y is for Yay. So, I probably shouldn’t like this book, but it is an absolute delight to look at and read through if you can account for all the aforementioned things. The illustrations are engaging and detailed and oh so happy and fun. The book feels good in your hands reading it with a little one snuggled up beside you at 8.5 x 6.5 and 32 thick pages long.
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