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Not Now, Noor!
£6.70£7.60 (-12%)
Noor loves her mum, and all the other hijabi women in her family, but wonders why do they wear headscarves? Is it so they can hide snacks for later? Or because they’re a super spy and hiding their secret identity?
Full of curiousity, Noor sets out to find her answer, but her family are all busy and have no time to answer this important question. Just as Noor is ready to give up on her quest, her Ammu arrives home and knows just the thing to say.
This heart-warming yet funny tale is a celebration of Muslim women, curious children, and family love.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Puffin (16 Mar. 2023) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 32 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0241552478 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0241552476 |
| Reading age | 3 – 6 years, from customers |
| Dimensions | 23.4 x 0.4 x 28.6 cm |
by JJN
Great item
by Emma F
Brightly coloured and engaging pictures and story.
by Manal
My daughter loves the story. It is useful for young girls.
by Starlight
My 6 year old daughter loved it!
by Amina
Beautiful book mashallah
Niece loved it
Would definitely recommend
by I Read, Therefore I Blog
Noor’s mum, her auntie Salma, both her grandmothers and her big sister Affa all wear hijab. But none of their hijabs look alike – they all wear hijab differently – and Noor wants to understand why. So Noor goes to ask her sister and her auntie and her grandmothers about why they wear it but everyone is too busy to explain it to her and the more Noor thinks about it, the more she wonders …
Farina Islam and Nabila Adani’s picture book is a bright, cheerful and slightly cheeky look at what the hijab is and why some Muslim women wear it. Noor’s imaginative thoughts on why her relatives may wear hijab made me smile and I really liked the fact that when she finally gets an answer, her mum stresses how it is Noor’s choice to wear hijab but that it does go to her mum’s identity as a Muslim and she is unapologetic about that.
Noor is a great character – curious and a little bit cheeky, I really enjoyed her interactions with her female relatives and the little observations she makes about them (e.g. her sister’s gigantic ears, and her grandmother having bad hair days). The illustrations are a lot of fun – filled with bright colours and showing both the different types of hijab that Noor’s relatives wear but also getting across their respective characters (I especially liked Noor’s curious grandmother who she thinks may well be a spy).
Some people may find this book to be an irreverent look at the hijab but I think it does a great job of demystifying it and there is very much an emphasis on how the hijab is not a uniform – there are different types and women wear them for different reasons. I was especially pleased to see how the emphasis at the end on how it is a choice to wear hijab but Door’s ammu (mum) also stresses how it is part of her identity as a Muslim and that she is proud to wear it.
All in all, I thought that it was a lot of fun and a really good way for grown ups to talk about hijab with their young readers, regardless of whether they are Muslim or not. On that basis, I think it is well worth a read.
by Humayun Rashid
So nice to have a book that young muslim girls can relate to
by J SYDNEY
Like many other adults who work in schools, I need no excuse whatsoever to buy and read children’s books but it has to be said that I have used moving to Year 3 in September as the perfect reason to buy many more picture books than I did in Year 5. With my own children way past sharing such titles with me, and my own knowledge now quite poor, I have mostly relied on recommendations from my Twitter friends up until now to guide my acquisitions.
When this gorgeous new title from writer Farhana Islam and illustrator Nabila Adani arrived from Puffin Books I was thrilled. Bright, colourful and highly engaging, this is a book I could not wait to share with both my class and in my little lunchtime Story Club, where it proved a huge hit this week.
Telling the story of young Noor, who is desperate to find out why the female members of her family wear hijabs, this is a read which will delight young readers. For those who are Muslim, it shows authentic representation of hijabis and for those who are not, it answers the types of questions that naturally curious children will have such as whether hair coverings are worn to hide big ears or secret snack stashes to feast upon at a later time.
Throughout the book, those for whom a hijab is unfamiliar are gently corrected in their misassumptions with the result that the book is one that will educate them without their knowing – they will simply enjoy the story and the beautiful pictures throughout.
On sale now, this is a must-have in every primary school where authentically reflecting our diverse society is, quite rightly, a priority for many of us. I adored this and know that my young charges will too.