Mine and my son’s most favourite book is “Trouble at Taraweeh”. We got this book in Ramadan and it teaches about most important night of Ramadan. I love all the books I got from Ruqaya’s Bookshelf.

This book was so funny and awesome. My kids were cracking up over the unfortunate antics of poor Umama, and they could also obviously identify with being a little kid who has good-hearted intentions but just keeps messing up at every turn!

On the other hand, I loved the example of the adults in the story: patient, loving, kind, understanding parents and community leaders. Thanking the child for fixing the speakers without humiliating her in public for being the cause of the problem... such a good example for the rest of us adults, too.

I especially loved the imagery of the imam standing to pray with the little frog in his pocket. What a great example of Islamic ethics in terms of kindness to animals! That was so adorable. Both my kids and I loved this book. I have to admit that I was touched to tears by the ending, too, because me and my kids have been discussing the power of du'a recently, and that was also a great part of the story.