Cover of The Bee's Sweet Gift, a Qur'an-inspired hardback picture book for children aged 3 to 7 inspired by Surah An-Nahl. Watercolour illustration of Amira at the table with a jar of honey, a honeycomb and honey on her toast.

The Bee's Sweet Gift

£21.00 GBP
Skip to product information
Cover of The Bee's Sweet Gift, a Qur'an-inspired hardback picture book for children aged 3 to 7 inspired by Surah An-Nahl. Watercolour illustration of Amira at the table with a jar of honey, a honeycomb and honey on her toast.
  • Cover of The Bee's Sweet Gift, a Qur'an-inspired hardback picture book for children aged 3 to 7 inspired by Surah An-Nahl. Watercolour illustration of Amira at the table with a jar of honey, a honeycomb and honey on her toast.
  • Cover of The Bee's Sweet Gift, a Qur'an-inspired hardback picture book for children aged 3 to 7 inspired by Surah An-Nahl. Watercolour illustration of Amira at the table with a jar of honey, a honeycomb and honey on her toast.
The Bee's Sweet Gift

The Bee's Sweet Gift

£21.00 GBP

One little bee. So much sweetness.

A breakfast question leads Amira into the remarkable world behind one spoonful of honey.

Inspired by Surah An-Nahl · Ages 3–7 · Hardback edition

Read The Bee’s Sweet Gift

There is honey on Amira’s toast.
Golden. Slow. Familiar.

Until one morning she asks where it actually comes from.

Mama takes her to watch a bee moving between flowers. Soon one question becomes another.

How does the bee know which flowers to visit?
How does it find its way home?
Who taught it what to do?

Inspired by Surah An-Nahl, The Bee’s Sweet Gift begins exactly where many good childhood conversations begin: with something ordinary suddenly becoming interesting.

The story follows Amira’s curiosity from breakfast to flowers, bees and all the quiet work behind something as simple as honey on toast.

The world has not changed by the end of the book.
Amira has simply learned to look at it more closely.

Inside the book

  • 24 illustrated story pages
  • Inspired by Surah An-Nahl
  • A story of honey, bees and curiosity
  • A gentle introduction to Surah An-Nahl, The Bee
  • A related Prophetic teaching
  • Pronunciation guidance
  • A short dua
  • One question to wonder about together
  • Premium hardback to keep

Ages 3–7 · Hardback · Ships worldwide

Or find Amira and Yusuf across all six books in The Abundance Collection.
a gift for the kitchen table

Six colouring pages, drawn from our books.

Print them at home, leave them on the table with some pencils, and see what happens.

A bee from the colouring book, drawn in outline

Free, printable, and yours to keep.

You may also like

See inside the books

Watercolour, room on every page, and lines short enough for a four-year-old to say back to you. A few notes from the desk where they were written sit underneath.

Amira picking a fig from the laden tree while Mama watches
The fig tree was laden with soft fruit, so heavy the branches bent. She picked one, and it was sweet. “The figs are a gift too,” said Mama.
7
Every Good Thing · Surah Ar Rahman

We did not want to hand a child the word gratitude and hope it stuck. So she gets a fig instead, off a branch bending under the weight of it, something she can hold and taste and thank Him for.

The word can come later. The feeling has to come first.

Baba kneeling in the soil beside Yusuf at the new shoot
Baba knelt beside him. “You planted it,” he said. “But Allah grew it. That is how every good thing works.”
15
Yusuf sitting back on his heels, thinking about the shoot
Yusuf thought about that. He had done a small thing, and Allah had done the big one.
16
Who Makes It Grow? · Surah Al Waqiah

This is the spread we rewrote the most. Yusuf’s part had to remain real: he did plant it. And the growing had to remain something he could never do for himself. Both truths sit in one breath, so effort and trust never end up on opposite sides.

Then we stopped. No “because”. No “therefore”. No moral added afterwards. The moment had already said enough.

Rutab Books studies how young children learn, looks to the Quran and Prophetic example for guidance, and designs stories that help children notice the signs of Allah in everyday life.