02: Story of Nuh (Noah)

Nuh عليه السلام called his people for centuries, and very few of them listened.

That is the part of the story children rarely hear, and it is the part worth having. The ark and the flood are dramatic; the nine hundred and fifty years of being ignored, mocked and insulted beforehand are what the Qur'an actually dwells on.

Told in rhyme: the calling, the refusal, the building of the ark while his own people laughed at a man constructing a ship on dry land, the animals brought aboard in pairs, and the water that came from the sky and from the earth at once.

A child learns from this that being right and being believed are different things, and that patience is sometimes measured in lifetimes.

How the Series Works

Simple full-color illustrations accompany rhyming poetry that is fun to read aloud and surprisingly easy to remember — which is the point. A child who has heard a story in verse a dozen times can recite parts of it back, and what he can recite he retains.

Each book carries an "Islamictionary": a simplified children's glossary explaining the Arabic and Islamic words as they appear. That single feature is why the books work in non-Arabic-speaking households, where a parent reading aloud otherwise has to stop and improvise a definition.

Hard, durable full-color pages with the picture on the left and the text on the right. Each book is 8 x 5 inches and three-quarters of an inch thick — built for the handling a favorite book gets.

The Rest of the Series

Fifteen titles, each on one Prophet, all in the same rhyming format:

• 01 — Aadam (Adam)
• 03 — Huud (Eber)
• 04 — Saleh (Shelah)
• 05 — Ibrahim (Abraham)
• 06 — Luut (Lot)
• 07 — Shuaib (Jethro)
• 08 — Yusuf (Joseph)
• 09 — Ayoub (Job)
• 10 — Yunus (Jonah)
• 11 — Musa (Moses)
• 12 — Dawud (David)
• 13 — Sulaiman (Solomon)
• 14 — Eesah (Jesus)
• 15 — Muhammad ﷺ

The boxed set brings them together at a discount.