By Mindful Muslim Reader
Have you walked into your library in June only to be assailed by colorful but unwanted ideologies in the children’s section?
Find yourself steering clear of the PRIDE display during a family visit? No longer enough. Think Muslim books are immune? Think again.
Checkout this library hack! It’s simple and (almost) foolproof.
Teach your kids to find the PUBLICATION DATE.
If the book is published before 2014, they are free to look at it.
If it’s published after 2014, you have to okay it first.
Why 2014?
This is the year the #WeNeedDiverseBooks movement arrived full force in the kid-lit world. There was an industry-wide push for more children’s books with characters and authors from underrepresented backgrounds, including Muslims.
Sure, we now have a handful of beautifully illustrated children’s books with Muslim characters, but this is dwarfed by the staggering amount of books that overtly or subtly push agendas that are not in line with Islamic morality. Unfortunately, this also includes Muslim books.
Of course, the foolproof way to expose your child to books worth reading is to take Mindful Muslim Reader with you to the library. We read cover to cover so you don’t have to!
Find books on your phone, or download our booklist.
But if your kids love getting lost in the book aisles, then this hack will make your family library excursions much less stressful.
The best part is that kids love the hack too. They’ll treat it as a treasure hunt, with clean books as the reward!
Mindful Muslim Reader rates children’s books for virtue, language, story, and beauty and flags content advisories when needed. We read cover to cover so you don’t have to. Find more books worth reading.