Who Makes It Grow?
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Who Makes It Grow?
£21
One tiny seed. A very big question.
A story about doing the small work that belongs to us and trusting Allah with what does not.
Inspired by Surah Al-Waqiʿah · Ages 3–7 · Hardback edition
Read Who Makes It Grow?
Yusuf presses a tomato seed into the soil.
The next morning he runs outside.
Nothing.
He waters it.
Waits.
Checks again.
Still nothing.
But there is more to growing than he can see.
Yusuf can dig the soil. He can carry the watering can. He can protect the little patch of earth and return to it every morning.
What he cannot do is pull a green shoot from the ground.
Then roots. Then leaves. Then tomatoes, ripe and heavy.
Who Makes It Grow? gives a child a beautifully concrete way to meet an enormous idea: there is care we can give, and there is life we cannot command.
And when Yusuf’s garden gives him more tomatoes than he and Baba can eat, there is enough to carry next door too.
What might be happening even when we cannot see it yet?
Inside the book
- 24 illustrated story pages
- Inspired by Surah Al-Waqiʿah
- A child-sized introduction to effort, patience and tawakkul
- A Prophetic teaching about planting and charity
- Pronunciation guidance
- A short dua
- One question to wonder about together
- Premium hardback to keep
Ages 3–7 · Hardback · Ships worldwide
Who Makes It Grow? is book two 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 2 and 3 · A very small seed
Yusuf holds a tomato seed no bigger than a crumb. Baba finds a sunny corner of the garden, and they plant it together.
Pages 8 and 9 · Under the soil
Yusuf can water the seed, but he cannot make it grow. Down in the dark, where nobody is looking, something has already begun.
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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