The animation was produced by HalfDate.com as part of the Children’s Ramadan Fasting Campaign.

Apologies for the lack of updates, and a belated Ramadhan Mubarak to you all. May Allah accept all our deeds in this special month.

A few things to go though, starting with…
My Mummy’s Tummy is now available to buy. More details here, and buy a copy from the SeerahStore right here.

The SeerahStore should be a little more user-friendly now, allowing you to pay for items without needing a PayPal account, and we hope to implement Google Checkout support soon too insha’Allah, so there are as many options available for you as possible.

Also, the best way to buy our books right now is through Islamic Relief’s Pakistan Flood Appeal Shop, where you can buy a set of all 5 StoneFaruq books, plus A Day with the Dinosaurs, and the Encyclopaedia of Seerah for Children for just £21.73 including postage. That’s £5 of the retail price, and best of all, 100% of that money will go to Islamic Relief’s Pakistan Flood Emergency Appeal, to help those desperately in need.

Our next book, titled ‘One’, is being printed as I type this insha’Allah, and should be available from November 2010 insha’Allah. You can see the cover for the book above, but I have also made that design into a desktop wallpaper. You can see some different sized versions for download, and for your use, right here:
http://www.stonefaruq.com/wallpaper/

Other books are progressing, and we’re still hoping to double our previous annual new book output, and release 4 books this year insha’Allah. So we hope there will be more to come insha’Allah. Please make du’ah for us.

Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah

All images are copyright © 2010 StoneFaruq

Here’s a rundown of the current books we plan to release in 2010 insha’Allah, from StoneFaruq, and the Seerah Foundation.

Muhammad - Encyclopaedia of Seerah
Currently, almost half of the 8 volumes of the encyclopaedia are out of print, or very low in stock. Insha’Allah, we hope to be able to print the missing volumes this year, so that we will have at least 200 full sets in stock. More news on this once they have gone to print insha’Allah.

StoneFaruq - Books for Children
Our four children’s books are still available, now distributed worldwide by Kube Publishing Ltd., and insha’Allah, we hope to have four more in print this year.

The four titles are: My Mummy’s Fat Tummy, about the arrival of a new baby in the family, from a young girl’s point of view (an early mockup of the cover can be seen above). One, is another ‘collage style’ illustrated book, all about Tawhid. Insha’Allah We’ll Get There, is a rhyming story about journeying to Makkah for Hajj. Lastly, Auntie Eemaan’s Eid Party, which is fairly self explanatory.

More on all of these books, and others, in the near future. Please make du’ah for us insha’Allah, so we achieve that which we set out to do, in Allah’s cause.

Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah

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© 2010 StoneFaruq

There are interesting developments going on in digital media all the time, but right now, books and magazines moving into the digital space is a great area of interest.

With the upcoming launch of Apple’s iPad, there finally looks like there will be a viable platform for consuming content like this is a new and accessible way. Below is a video of a Penguin Books presentation, featuring demos of some books they will be launching on Apple’s new device.

Some interesting ideas, but I think still quite limited compared to what could potentially be possible on this platform. So, what would you like to see on the ipad? Interactive children’s books? or, something new and completely different?

Let us know insha’Allah. Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah

Long time with no Blog update, but lots of things have been happening.

Firstly, our second and third books are now in print, and in the shops insha’Allah. These are:

Time to Pray, our first boardbook, in a new art style for us.

Time to wake up. Time for Fajr. Make your Wudhu and go to the Masjid.
A rhyming story to teach children the benefit of prayer. It’s important to show this vital part in the life of every Muslim, in an accessible way.
We can’t overestimate the value of Prayer.

Buy Time to Pray from the SeerahStore

Allah lets us have fun, a hardback book with similar artwork to last years ‘Time for Isha’a‘.

A rhyming story for young children, that teaches us to appreciate the things we take for granted. Allah has given us so much. We have so much. We have so much to be thankful for. Sometimes it is easy to forget how blessed we are.

Buy Allah lets us have fun at the SeerahStore

Our first two books, Time for Isha’a, and The Jolly Jamaat, are also available to buy online from the SeerahStore, at a new reduced price.

So, the SeerahStore is up and running, just about. The only method of payment taken, at the moment, is via Paypal, and this is only if you have a Paypal account. I am hoping to get more payment methods, and simpler ones, available soon insha’Allah.

And don’t forget you can also buy all our publications, and other Seerah Foundation books, from your nearest Islamic Bookstore. Most Islamic bookshops worldwide get books from Kube Publishing Ltd., who distribute all our books in the UK, and internationally.

Since we started StoneFaruq, in May 2008, Allhamdulillaah,we have put 4 Children’s Books into print. But the road is long, we have more than 40 books (mostly already written) that need to be illustrated. We hope insha’Allah that with your du’ah, and your help, that we can increase our output.

More news to come in the days ahead of our next book…

Jazak’Allah Khair. Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah

Currently our books (Time for Isha’a and The Jolly Jamaat), are only available in a few Islamic bookshops, mainly in London, with little or no international presence. Also, our online shop, SeerahStore.com, is still offline, and the launch has been delayed. Making our books hard to find for most people. So insha’Allah, this deal with Kube Publishing will enable many more to have access to our books, and many more children will benefit insha’Allah.

Finally, our forthcoming books (Time to Pray and Allah lets us have fun) will be available later this summer insha’Allah, and will also be distributed by Kube Publishing. Look out for our Books for Children. Coming soon, insha’Allah, to an Islamic Bookshop near you.

Jazak’Allah Khair. Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah

The ever imminent completion of books 3 and 4 is close at hand insha’Allah. Just some last minute preparation now, till they are sent off to the printers. Allhamdulilaah.

Neilsen have the details for both books now, they’re all ISBN’ed up and good-to-go, so expect them to turn up on Amazon and other sites in the next few weeks

The one more likely to be available first, ‘Allah lets us have fun’, was previewed here. Below is the preview of the other book, which will be a ‘board book’ insha’Allah, ‘Time to Pray’. Another rhyming pre-school book, but different to all the others.

Here’s the blurb from the back cover:

Here are some sample pages (click to enlarge):

As you can see, the style is very different from the other books, and it’s our first book with ‘no faces’, which is a big issue for some people. Something I’ve been looking into a great deal.

All this has delayed the launch of our online shop, so apologies for that. The Seerah Store will see the light of day soon insha’Allah.

Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah

All images - copyright © 2009 StoneFaruq

Now I have some kind of internet connection at home, I’ve been trawling the web, attempting to spread the word about StoneFaruq and our books insha’Allah.

 
I’ve set up a ‘Lens‘ at squidoo.com

Books-for-Children-from-StoneFaruq

There’s a ‘group’ for us  on facebook…

Books for Children on facebook

Finally, we’re on Muxlim.com too (that’s not a typo btw)

my.muxlim.com/stonefaruq

 
Can anyone make any suggestions as to where else I should go? Forums where they may be interested, or other popular sites that may attract more interest in these books insha’Allah.

Answers on a postcard (or just in the comments section below).

Jazak’Allah khair. Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah

 

 
Update: For what it’s worth, I made a Twitter page as well…

twitter.com/stonefaruq

Just a quick post, the SeerahStore is still in development, online within a month insha’Allah, to enable people to purchase our, and the Seerah Foundation’s books, at the click of a mouse. In the meantime, both our books are available on eBay right here.

(will update the auction with overseas postage prices soon insha’Allah)

Jazak’Allah Khair. Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah