6. Ilyas and Duck: Fantastic Festival of Eid al-Fitr by Omar Khawaja
Are you looking to get your children excited about Ramadan and Eid this year? This is the book for you! The cute and funny characters of this book have fun while talking about different holidays. I gifted it to my daughter’s preschool classroom, and the children loved it.
There are many others on the topics of Eid and Ramadan. A problem for Muslim authors is that people don’t buy their books and they go out of print. I’ve been buying books since the 1980s for my kids, for mosque and Islamic school libraries, and now for my grandchildren. There have been some good and poor books printed over the years. But a continual problem is not enough consumers to support the book market. Teen fiction for Muslim kids is probably the hardest niche to market