The Gift of Ramadan

Children experience Ramadan before they understand it. They notice the household changing shape — different meals, different hours, adults behaving differently — and form their own idea of what is going on.

This book gives them the actual answer, in a format they will sit with.

What It Covers

Why the month matters and what makes it different from the other eleven. The fast itself and what it is for. The Qur'an's connection to the month. And the practices that fill it — the night prayers, the extra charity, the last ten nights.

All of it carried by colorful illustrations designed to attract a young reader's attention, stimulate him and amuse him — while leaving him genuinely knowledgeable about the month.

The Activity Section

Two pages at the end to test the knowledge gained. That is where the reading turns into learning: a child discovers what he actually absorbed, and a parent or teacher finds out too.

When to Read It

Before Ramadan begins rather than during. A child who arrives at the first fast already knowing what the month is for approaches it as something he is part of rather than something happening around him.

Others in the Series

Each book in the Children's Gift & Lessons Series takes one subject, illustrates it in full color, and closes with an activity section. Also available:

• The Night of Decree
• The Gift of Eid
• The Gift of Jumu'ah
• The Gift of My Mother
• The Surahs to Seek Refuge
• Angel Jibra'eel Returns Again
• Abu Lahab and his Wife Arwah
• Those Who Backbite & Slander

The boxed set brings eight of them together.