These are alternated with meditative spreads showing and telling of Faizah’s thoughts about her sister’s hijab, along with Mama’s words.Ĭome break time, the bullying continues with one boy shouting at Asiya, “I’m going to pull that tablecloth off your head.” Once at school however, the comments from other children start. “I’m walking with a princess” Faizah tells us and “Her hijab smiles at me the whole way.” The following morning the sisters leave for school, Faizah (the narrator) sporting snazzy new trainers and wearing a new backpack, Asiya wearing her brightest blue hijab that reminds her sister of the colour of the ocean, if you squint your eyes and pretend there’s no line between the water and the sky. We first meet Asiya and her younger sister, Faizah when their Mama takes the girls to a hijab shop for Asiya to make her choice for that important ‘first-day hijab’. This is a powerful and empowering book created by team Ibtihaj Muhammad, a fencer and the first Muslim woman in hijab to represent the US, novelist A.K. Ibtihaj Muhammad with S.K.Ali, illustrated by Hatem Aly
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