![]() I work in an elementary school with a high number of Muslims who wear headscarves (those who I have talked to call them hijabs), and goodness finding representation for them is difficult! Accordingly, I'm very grateful for this book. It brought tears to my eyes how important representation is. After we read it for a while, the first boy was sad because he didn't recognize the Khimar as the same as the Hijab and he thought he'd been wrong and that the girl from the story wasn't Muslim after all, until the book said Khimar another name for Hijab, at which point he perked right up again. I let the two boys pick which book we should start with, and one of the boys (a Muslim boy) emphatically wanted to read this book because, "She's Muslim!" The other boy was fine with reading this book first, so we did. To keep them busy, I grabbed a variety of picture books for us to read, and this was one of the books I grabbed. ![]() Edit: So, I unexpectedly ended up with a couple of boys from the younger end of the elementary school that I needed to watch for like 20 minutes one day at my work. ![]()
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