The Gift from Allah and three other stories
Stories for the Girls
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The Gift from Allah and three other stories
About the author
About the author
Claire Jobert, writer and illustrator, was born in Paris in May 1961. She was brought up in a Christian family. She converted to Islam at the age of nineteen and immigrated to Iran when she got married.
Claire Joubert has a bachelor's degree in educational sciences.
Through four short stories, this picture book talks about social interaction with family and around friends with different socio-economic backgrounds.
"As soon as winter began, I prayed for a snow day and hoped that school would be closed. A snow day in winter feels like a special gift from Allah. However, an elderly lady in our neighbourhood told my mother, "I hope it doesn't snow this year." That evening, I took some soup to her and gently asked her to take her wish back. She explained, "If it snows..."
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