Parents

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." 

– Frederick Douglass 

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,

Go throw your TV set away,

And in its place you can install

A lovely bookshelf on the wall.

Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”

– Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

In our globally connected world, children and adolescents need to gain knowledge about our world with a compassionate and critical view geared toward making it a better place for people to live. One of the ways in which our youth can gain that knowledge is through reading.

Yasmin the Scientist is an entertaining way to introduce the topic of scientific discovery with young Muslim readers.

At some point in our lives, we will all hear people who say they do not believe in God because they “believe in science.” Our children are likely to hear that, too. Believing in “the science” has become a slogan everywhere from politics to entertainment in modern times.

Children are born with a natural wonder about the world around them. Babies first take in the world through their eyesight and hearing, but as soon as they can grasp with their hands and kick with their feet, they want to eagerly explore their physical surroundings.

Remember the days when you used to play outside until the sunset? How we biked, kicked a ball around, and roamed the neighbourhood with our friends without any adult supervision? Much of my childhood was like that until I went to high school in the mid-2000s.