The Lost Ring: An Eid Story

by Fawzia Gilani-Williams

Rahma's family is preparing for Eid and she has been looking forward to making samosas all week. Grandma, who is visiting, realizes that her precious gold ring has gone missing. Will Rahma find her grandma's precious ring? For ages 7 and up.

29 pages, Hardcover

First published July 12, 2007

About the author

Dr. Fawzia Gilani-Williams is an internationally experienced educator and educational consultant with experience in school accreditation and school inspections. She has written a number of books that promote intercultural literacy, emotional and social flourishing.

She serves as a global representative for the International Positive Education Network and is currently employed by the UAE Ministry of Education.

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found the book interesting, as it is about a Muslim family preparing for Eid, and it reminded me of a similar story line as "Too Many Tamales" by Gary Soto, where a Hispanic family prepare for Christmas, as they make Tamales, and one Mom takes her ring off, and the girl tries it on, and later think that she has lost the ring, so she makes her cousins eat all of the tamales, just to later find out that the Mom had the ring all along. In Eid Story, the girls help their grand mother make samosa, and grandmother's ring goes missing, after they could not find the ring, they decide to come clean to the grandmother, and at the same moment their mom finds the ring in her samosa. I like the message conveyed in the Eid story better, but the story is more suitable for older children. As the book does go in to details about the custom and traditions of Islam, so the younger children will likely to loose interest after a while. Also the illustration in the book are small, so might not be visually interesting to some. I do think because it is written by some one who is familiar with the custom and traditions of Islam, it does provide great details about things Muslim do during the month of Ramadan, so the information provided in the book is authentic and in depth.

[Maitha · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a lovely book about Eid. These kinds of books are greatly needed for the Muslim community