K. Ali both reflect on their personal experience of their choice to wear the hijab in their Author's Notes. If you're looking for a hijab-positive book to read to your kids, I highly recommend The Proudest Blue. I live in a place where it's cold, and I often bundle up with a scarf wrapped around my head and hair, which may suggest hijab. You can also encourage children to practise their independent writing skills with our The Proudest Blue Writing Frames . Mahasin: That is not an uncommon pronunciation of the name, especially in African-American communities.

The simple illustrations and story-telling style give the story an air of innocence, while confronting the prejudices faced by Muslim girls. The winners of The Farshore Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards 2023, highlighting the work schools are doing to encourage a love of reading, have.This collaboration, between the first American Olympic medallist to compete wearing a hijab and an award-winning Muslim YA author, is a beautiful story of sisterly love as well as a thoughtful depiction of the significance of wearing the hijab.

This image is important because it normalizes the idea that the person wearing the scarf and not wearing the scarf are the same person.

Ariana: My first appreciation is seeing multiple Muslims involved in the process of this book from the author, Ibtihaj Muhammad with S. It goes into very vague reasoning as to why hijabs are important such as "It means being strong" and it also means that "you understand who you are. But with wise words from their mother and understanding from their friends, Faizah and Asiya find new ways to be strong. Identifying a story’s conflict and resolution is an important reading skill we want our students to develop.

Faizah’s feelings, thoughts, and observations allow her to access her imagination and contemplate the situation while still watching over her older sister; she is proud, smart and creative. Color me curious: the one thing this book did not offer is the "why" of wearing hijab, only suggesting the power and pride that comes with wearing it. Dave: 4 I liked this on first read, thought maybe 3 stars, as I found it good, okay, about the hijab, sisters, bullying, the story and art just fine, but I was influenced by other factors in my rating, finally. I wanted to read about how she became the first hijabi Muslim girl fencer, her beginning, and why she chose that sport, was she angry?It's what we are ACTUALLY asking for when we say we want more diverse books--not books about pain or Big Racial Issues, just your typical, adorable picturebook about being the younger sister and looking up to your big sister, and as it just so happens, you're jealous of her because of her hijab, because wearing a hijab is totally fucking normal and fine and doesn't need to be pathologized.