The Bounty Collection · First Edition Hardbacks

Clever with money. Honest with it. Generous with it.

A jar of honey that ends up on a red bus. A lemonade stall on the wettest Saturday in June. A set of scales that is 20g short. A £10 loan that Amira would quite like back as £12. A grove of Seville oranges, half of them marked by hail.

The Bounty Collection is six illustrated stories about earning, spending, saving and giving, told through one family and their small village business. Each one is rooted in the Qur'an, the Sunnah and the lives of the Companions, many of whom were merchants.

Six hardbacks · Ages 6 to 10 · First Edition · Pre-order, dispatching June 2027

The conversation most of us were never given.

Many of us learnt about money late, by getting it wrong, and picked up somewhere along the way the feeling that wanting to do well was not quite something to talk about.

Our children are growing up surrounded by tapped cards, adverts and the question of why we cannot just buy another one. And the years between about 6 and 12 are when money habits and values quietly settle for life.

You already know what you want them to carry. That honest work is honourable. That a promise is a promise. That borrowing has to be paid back. That there is a difference between a need and a want. That wealth is a trust from Allah, and some of it was always meant for somebody else.

The difficult part is finding a way to say it that a seven year old will actually listen to. So these books do not say it. They let Yusuf find it out, one Saturday at a time.

The sums are real.

The lemonade stall really does lose money in the rain. The hot day really does bring in £23 against £17 spent, and Yusuf works out for himself that the £6 left over is the profit. Children follow the money the way it actually moves, from the supplier to the stall to the person who spreads it on their toast.

Honest trade, as part of faith.

The Prophet ﷺ worked as a merchant and was known as al-Amin, the trustworthy, long before revelation. The longest verse in the Qur'an is about writing down what you owe. These stories show trade as honourable work and wealth as good when it is earned honestly and used well, the way Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf, Khadijah and Uthman used theirs.

A page for you at the back of every book.

Each book closes with a page for grown ups, with the verses, hadith and stories behind it and a short box of money words, so the conversation can carry on at the kitchen table.

Proper stories, properly funny.

Written in the warm, dry tradition of a classic British storybook, with a great deal of weather, a runaway jar and a cat who is no help whatsoever. The sort of book the whole family ends up quoting at breakfast, and somewhere between the laughing, a child learns why an honest scale matters.

Six stories. Six things worth knowing.

The Jar with the Bee on It

Yusuf follows one jar of Hive & Grove honey across Willowmere, by way of a gentleman with an umbrella and a red bus, to find out who it was really for. Where money comes from.

Yusuf's Honey Lemonade

His first stall loses money in the rain, turns a profit on the hottest day of June, and teaches him to tie his camel and trust Allah, in that order. Cost, price, profit and loss.

The Scales That Told Fibs

Something at the market does not weigh what it says, and Yusuf has to decide what an honest stall looks like, even when nobody would ever know. Honesty in trade.

For Ever (Saturday Mornings Only)

A conker swap goes wrong because nothing was written down, so when the baker wants honey every week, the family writes it all out properly, with Teta as witness. Contracts and keeping your word.

Amira's Bank

Amira lends Yusuf £10 and asks for £12 back. Baba explains why that will not do, Yusuf saves towards a pair of binoculars, and the family works out its zakat. Saving, borrowing and giving.

Oranges for Everyone

In Seville, half of Señora Pilar's oranges have been scarred by hail, and the family has to agree a price that is fair to the grower and to the business. Suppliers and a fair deal.

For families like yours.

For families who read together at bedtime, who want their children confident with money and honest with it, and who would rather they learnt both from Yusuf's lemonade stall than from an advert.

If The Abundance Collection is already on your shelf, this is the same family, the same house and the same village, with a little more going on. Amira and Yusuf are joined by Mama, Baba, Teta, Mishmish, Mrs Jones and her bees, and the family business, Hive & Grove.

The First Edition reservation

Rutab Books is an independent publisher. The first edition is one fixed print run of 500 sets, committed to before a single copy is sold. Reserving now holds one of those sets for your family.

When will it arrive?

This is a pre-order. The books are being made now, and your set will be dispatched in June 2027, just as the summer holidays begin, not straight away.

Closer to the time, we shall write to you to confirm your address and the dispatch date, and again on the day your set leaves us.

If you order another collection at the same time, it will come to you on its own date, and your Bounty set will follow in June. Delivery is complimentary on both.

What arrives

• Six illustrated hardbacks in a keepsake slipcase
• For ages 6 to 10, to read together or alone
• A page for grown ups and a money words box in every book
• Dispatching June 2027, with complimentary delivery to the UK and eleven further countries

Not six lessons on finance. Six stories for the years when a lemonade stall, a jar of honey and a fair price for a box of oranges are the most interesting things in the world, and exactly the right time to learn that honesty is part of the deal.