Cover of The Thankful Garden, a Qur'an-inspired hardback picture book for children aged 3 to 7 inspired by Surah Ibrahim. Watercolour illustration of a girl standing in a doorway holding a bowl, surrounded by potted plants and climbing greenery.

The Thankful Garden

£21.00 GBP
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Cover of The Thankful Garden, a Qur'an-inspired hardback picture book for children aged 3 to 7 inspired by Surah Ibrahim. Watercolour illustration of a girl standing in a doorway holding a bowl, surrounded by potted plants and climbing greenery.
  • Cover of The Thankful Garden, a Qur'an-inspired hardback picture book for children aged 3 to 7 inspired by Surah Ibrahim. Watercolour illustration of a girl standing in a doorway holding a bowl, surrounded by potted plants and climbing greenery.
  • Cover of The Thankful Garden, a Qur'an-inspired hardback picture book for children aged 3 to 7 inspired by Surah Ibrahim. Watercolour illustration of a girl standing in a doorway holding a bowl, surrounded by potted plants and climbing greenery.
The Thankful Garden

The Thankful Garden

£21.00 GBP

One flower. One alhamdulillah. Then another way of seeing.

A Qur'an-inspired story about gratitude when beautiful things grow, change and do not remain exactly as we hoped.

Inspired by Surah Ibrahim · Ages 3–7 · Hardback edition

Read The Thankful Garden

Amira begins with one little flower in one little pot.

She waters it.
Watches it.
Says alhamdulillah.

But flowers do what living things do.

They open. Change. Drop petals. Leave seeds behind.

And Amira begins to understand something larger than simply saying thank you when everything goes her way.

Inspired by Surah Ibrahim, The Thankful Garden gives alhamdulillah a place inside the ordinary rhythm of childhood.

Gratitude is not presented as a bargain that makes every good thing stay.
It becomes a way of noticing what was given, what remains, what may grow next and what can still be shared.

Inside the book

  • 24 illustrated story pages
  • Inspired by Surah Ibrahim
  • A repeated alhamdulillah refrain
  • A gentle exploration of gratitude and increase
  • A related Prophetic teaching about thanking others
  • Pronunciation guidance
  • A short dua
  • One question to wonder about together
  • Premium hardback to keep

Ages 3–7 · Hardback · Ships worldwide

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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

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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.