Missing Out on Rewards

Children are taught what earns reward. They are rarely shown how easily it is missed — not by doing wrong, but by not noticing the opportunity at all.

That is the subject here, and telling it as a story is what makes it land. A child watching someone else let a chance go past recognizes the feeling without being accused of anything.

Made for Reading Aloud

The book is designed as much for the parent as the child. Full-color illustration on every page, a story short enough for a single sitting, and a lesson clear enough that a parent does not have to explain it afterwards — which is the test of a children's book of this kind.

Recommended for ages five and up, and it works particularly well as a bedtime read.

Related Reading

• Haashim Discovers The Stars — in the same illustrated series
• The Du'a of Faizah — on supplication, in the same format
• Assurance of Paradise by Giving Charity — the reward attached to even the smallest charity