Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors
Magnificently capturing the colorful world of Islam for the youngest readers, this breathtaking and informative picture book celebrates Islam's beauty and traditions. From a red prayer rug to a blue hijab, everyday colors are given special meaning as young readers learn about clothing, food, and...
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Magnificently capturing the colorful world of Islam for the youngest readers, this breathtaking and informative picture book celebrates Islam's beauty and traditions. From a red prayer rug to a blue hijab, everyday colors are given special meaning as young readers learn about clothing, food, and other important elements of Islamic culture, with a young Muslim girl as a guide. Sure to inspire questions and observations about world religions and cultures, Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns is equally at home in a classroom reading circle as it is being read to a child on a parent's lap.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780811879057 (0811879054)
Publish date: June 6th 2012
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Interesting genre issues here. The book is clearly intended to present an insider's definitions of Muslim concepts. The device of presenting each fact through a color has the feel of a nursery rhyme, but not any one in specific. Khan's sense of rhythm is convincing this way. Amini's illustrations ar...
We see tiny windows into the Muslim world in this little book, color by color. Khan leads us through all the distinctive vocabulary of Muslims---henna and Ramadan and zakat and mosque---with gentle rhyming explanations while Amini reveals us the beauty of the Muslim world. A radiant and simple look ...
A beautifully illustrated introduction to customs and tenets of Islam.
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