Book Criteria

Asalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh

Welcome to our girls book club blog!

This is the first post, so I thought it would be fitting to go through the criteria we use when searching for a book.

Being that we are Muslim, for obvious reasons we stay away from books where shirk is being committed.

We try to avoid stories that:

• have magic, witches or wizards
• promote music or musical instruments
• contain romance or anything flirtatious
• have princesses, fairies and the whole 'fantasy' story line
• are commercialized (like 'Disney' /story line)
• involve time travelling (e.g. magic tree house)
• mention acts of haraam being committed or promoted, UNLESS there is a lesson to learn from that, such as a consequence for that haraam action later on in the story. For example, stealing, lying or cheating 
• have characters with bad attitudes(especially towards parents) and use offensive language.

It is not necessary that the books are "girlish", so to speak, or have girl themes. The main characters don't have to be girls. We welcome books that are well written, that stimulate our children's thinking, use rich vocabulary and have good morals and values. 

In conclusion, we like to provide our children with books that are inline with our Islamic values.