This book tells how the first Persian carpet was created to replace King Balash’s lost treasure.
The Legend of the Persian Carpet
Middle East
The Story of Esther
A vibrant and lyrical version of the Book of Esther, just in time for Purim on March 20, 2011.
Sami and the Time of the Troubles
A ten-year-old Lebanese boy balances his life in a war-torn city.
This book has been included in WOW’s Kids Taking Action Booklist. For our current list, visit our Boolist page under Resources in the green navigation bar.
My Arabic Words Book
“My Arabic Words Book” presents an illustrated book featuring an Arabic word for each of the twenty eight letters of the alphabet, presented in Arabic script and transliterated Roman script along with the English translation.
Arabic Letter Activity Book
Provides further exercises in learning the shapes and sounds of Arabic letters. Students also learn to group, match, color, analyze, and synthesize as they progress through the well tested and beautifully presented activities. The activities instill independent learning.
Apricots Tomorrow
To understand a people, acquaint yourself with their proverbs’ runs an Arab adage, and here are the books that do just that. The popular Apricots Tomorrow, a selection of sayings from the Gulf region, is joined by sister titles The Son of a Duck is a Floater and Unload your own Donkey which draws on sayings from the Maghreb and Levant. Paralleling age-old Arabic sayings with English equivalents, the proverbs highlight the uncanny similarity of inherited wisdom in both East and West.
This book has been featured in our Middle East and South Asia Arabic Language and Culture Kit.
The Carpet Boy’s Gift
Yearning for freedom and schooling for himself and the other children who toil in a carpet factory in Pakistan to repay loans from the factory owner to their parents, Nadeem is inspired by a former carpet boy named Iqbal Masih to lead the way.
This book has been included in WOW’s Kids Taking Action Booklist. For our current list, visit our Boolist page under Resources in the green navigation bar.
Arabic Reader
This is the first textbook in IQRA’ Second Generation of Arabic comprehensive program for teaching Arabic as a second language. This second generation is designed to be in twelve graded levels, to provide instructional books and related materials to learners from 1st through 12th grades.
Santa Claus in Baghdad: Stories about Teens in the Arab World
A collection of eight stories, most previously published in other anthologies, about what it is like to grow up in the Middle East today.
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
When Sarah Glidden took a “Birthright Israel” tour, she thought she knew what she was getting herself into. But when she got to Israel, she found that things weren’t quite so simple. HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL is Sarah’s memoir not only of her Israeli government sponsored trip through Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Masada and other famous locations, but of the emotional journey she never expected to take while she was there. Her experience clashes with her preconceived notions again and again, particularly when she tries to take a non-chaperoned trip into the West Bank. Sarah is forced to question first her political beliefs and, ultimately, her own sense of identity, until she finds that to understand Israel she first must come to understand herself.