Auntie Aisha Answers: The Tween Muslim's Ultimate Guide to Growing Up, by Aisha Rasheed (Daybreak Press, $22.99, 2024, age 8-12, 108pp) Review by Skye Anderson
Written for a select audience - tweener Muslims - Auntie Aisha Answers is a book in which wisdom and gentleness shines through abundantly while explaining how bodies change with puberty (both genders).
The author has such an understanding writing style when she tackles the tough questions that we would have liked to talk with her in person or have her in our family or circle of friends. She challenges the reader to be good and better, all the while explaining that the Muslim's higher power is challenging but also forgiving.
Interspersed throughout are just perfect illustrations as well as short topics within dotted lines and even suggested tasks to undertake. Some terms appear larger, bolder, and in a different (flowery?) font for emphasis which will either enhance understanding or drive the reader crazy.
Author Rasheed begins explaining what happens physically as children go through puberty and also emotionally, socially and spiritually. Best of all, she remembers what it is like to grow through this stage and come out better on the other side, with the help of religion.
The only deterrent was the frequent use of italicized Arabic terms and references to the Koran and even that was only because this reviewer is not Muslim (I did try, however, to find someone more knowledgeable, for their viewpoint on the book).
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