The Bee's Sweet Gift
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The Bee's Sweet Gift
£21
A little bee. A world of wonder.
A breakfast question leads Amira and Yusuf 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 the toast.
Golden. Slow. Familiar.
Until one morning Amira and Yusuf ask where it actually begins.
The question takes them out to the flowers in the family garden, and then along to Mrs Jones and her hives. Soon one question becomes another.
How does the bee know which flowers to visit?
How does it tell the others what it found?
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.
Nectar, pollen, a dance that carries a message, and the busy work going on inside the hive. Little by little the sweetness on their toast becomes a story about pollination, teamwork and the remarkable work Allah has inspired in a very small creature.
The world has not changed by the end of the book.
They have simply learned to look at it more closely.
Which part of the bee’s work surprised you most?
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
The Bee’s Sweet Gift is book five of six. The Abundance Collection brings all six first edition hardbacks together in a slipcase, £84.
Take a look inside
Two spreads from the first edition, just as they are printed. The rest we shall save for bedtime.
Pages 8 and 9 · Among the blossom
Amira and Yusuf follow a honeybee into the orchard, where she goes from flower to flower and gets pollen all over herself.
Pages 12 and 13 · At the hives
Mrs Jones lends the children bee suits and takes them to see the hives. Inside, thousands of bees are busy dancing.
All six stories are also sold together, in their own slipcase, as The Abundance Collection, £84
Meet the author
Nada Zameer
Nada Zameer is the author of The Abundance Collection and the co-founder and creative director of Rutab Books London, the family press she runs with her husband. A law graduate from London, she gathers her stories on long walks through St James's Park and Hyde Park, past Buckingham Palace and along the Thames towards Hampton Court, photographing the small details that end up on the page. The robin in her books was first spotted on one of those walks.
Her husband hears every story first. His favourite is Who Makes It Grow?, for its lesson in doing your part and trusting Allah with the rest.
Written, and every scene imagined, by Nada Zameer
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