Not Now, Noor!

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Telling the story of young Noor, who is desperate to find out why the female members of her family wear hijabs, this is a read which will delight young readers. With my own children way past sharing such titles with me, and my own knowledge now quite poor, I have mostly relied on recommendations from my Twitter friends up until now to guide my acquisitions. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Bright, colourful and highly engaging, this is a book I could not wait to share with both my class and in my little lunchtime Story Club, where it proved a huge hit this week.

It seems to be a common approach lately, and I wish that more picture books about hijab would clearly articulate that the commandment to cover is in the Quran. Inspired by the experiences of Olympic medallist Ibtihaj Muhammad, this is a beautiful and powerful story about the bond shared between siblings and being proud of yourself and your beliefs.Just as Noor is ready to give up on her quest, her Ammu arrives home and knows just the thing to say.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. She briefly worked as product designer in Japan and Indonesia before moving to the United States to study children's book illustration.I appreciate that they are in the dining room at home and thus not wearing a scarf, Nanu is because Dada is in the picture, authenticity which I love seeing, but children need a little more hand holding to see which person the text is talking about. When Noor finally gets to her mom it is she who answers with poetic lyricism, "We are Muslim women, my Noor, Unapologetic and true. Noor loves her mum, and all the other hijabi women in her family, but wonders why do they wear headscarves?