Ruqaya's Bookshelf: From our Hearts to yours

Stories are powerful. I’ve know that since I was a little girl, consuming many chapter books in one day, and pulling all-nighters to finish those p...

Baking cookies is fun cold-weather activity families can do in preparation for Ramadan or Eid. Baking warms up the kitchen, fills up the house with...

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 ...