Muslim Family Blog | Ruqaya's Bookshelf

Farheen Khan, author of the Ali Series, spent her childhood in Canada with her Pakistani parents. She was a very creative child with a big imaginat...

Rukhsana Khan’s latest book, Elephant’s Makeover is a rich text that will inspire conversations about bullying, gossip, and creating friendships. I...

Assigning kids household chores is a great way to give parents a little extra help at home and to teach children important life skills. But getting...

Today, author extraordinaire Sarah Musa writes about her real life experience that inspired her book Ahmed and the Very Stuck Teapot:   Long ago wh...

We are in the thick of winter, my least favourite season of the year! Being a parent of an outdoorsy child that's mostly stuck indoors means lots o...

Writing books for children isn’t about portraying angel-like protagonists who never make mistakes. Not only would those characters be boring, but...

Rukhsana Khan’s book, Elephant’s Makeover, is all about making friends, bullying, and accepting the way you were created! Elephant makes an unlikel...

Lela Goldsmith, author of Bibi’s Blessing and Not too Little to Make a Difference, grew up in Lamu an island off the coast of Kenya. The island is ...

Both kids and adults alike often ask me where my ideas for stories come from.Usually an idea goes through a lots of revisions in my own head befor...

Today we are joined by Hajera Khaja editor for Ruqaya’s Bookshelf with us. She is also a teacher at the Sarah Selecky Writing School and mother of ...

Today we are chatting with one of our readers, ten-year-old Aisha. She is an aspiring writer and the second child of a family of five children (soon to be six). Her favourite book is Stuck in the Middle by Sumayyah Hussein.

In Ali and the Eid Goat, Ali visits Pakistan with his family and gets a chance to become good friends with an Eid Goat. Ali meets his cousins and experiences Pakistan, from the warm people and culture to the striking poverty so many people face. This story is an enlightening insider's view of Pakistan (but with Ali along for the ride, we know it’s going to be fun!).