The Thankful Garden
£21
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The Thankful Garden
£21
There is good in the waiting, too.
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 has one little primrose and plenty to be thankful for.
She waters it.
Watches it.
Says alhamdulillah.
Then the petals fall.
In the family garden she learns what comes next: care for what is still there, gather the tiny seeds the flower left behind, and wait for another spring.
Gratitude follows her through the flowers, the disappointment and the beginning again.
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.
What good can we still notice when a day does not go as planned?
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
The Thankful Garden is book four 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 18 and 19 · The primroses
After a long wait the primroses come out along the path. Amira picks a small bunch and gives it to Mama.
Pages 8 and 9 · When the petals fall
One morning the petals are lying on the soil, and Amira wonders what she did wrong. Baba shows her there is still something growing.
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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