Assalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah
We are hard at work preparing the next 2 or 3 books fo release insha’Allah, though even after they go to print, it may take another 2-3 months before they will be on-the-shelves, as it were.
Buying our books should be easier soon insha’Allah, as the Seerah Store, is in development, and may be online by the end of February. Insha’Allah this will allow you to buy books directly from us at the click of a mouse. We will post the news when it goes live.
Here, to show you what’s been happening behind closed doors at StoneFaruq, is a preview of artwork from our forthcoming book ‘Allah lets us have fun’, which will insha’Allah teach children to appreciate the many gifts Allah has give us, that we easily take for granted. Here are the first 2 pages in the book, set in a playground (click to enlarge):
The artwork is in a similar style to ‘Time for Isha’a’, with characters made from torn card and paper, scanned in, and mixed with other collage elements using Adobe Photoshop (version 7). Here are 2 pages from the middle of the story, from a classroom (click to enlarge):
The book size will be a larger format, closer to the size of ‘The Jolly Jamaat’, and insha’Allah the first print will be published in hardback. There will still be minor changes, text rearranged, faces added, but the book is close to ready now, and may go to print in a few weeks insha’Allah. Half the book was finished by Ramadhan 2008, but in the meantime I had to spend about 2-3 months getting all these sites live, and getting other books into shops.
We will post more previews of other books in the weeks to come insha’Allah.
Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah
All images are copyright © 2009 StoneFaruq
Tags: Allah lets us have fun, book preview, seerah store, StoneFaruq
salaams
looking good so far mashallah.
As-salaamu ‘alaikum
MashaAllah, your books look wonderful. My wife and I are expecting are first baby soon, inshaAllah and we’ve been collecting books for children over the last few months. I shall be putting in an order soon, inshaAllah. Any idea when the latest book will be available? If it’s going to be published over the next few weeks, I’d like to order all 3 together. Otherwise the first two will do for now.
Wasalam,
your brother Mohammed Ashik
Jazak’Allah khair!
The next book will be on it’s way to the printers in the next few weeks insha’Allah, but it may not be ready till April or May unfortunately.
Insha’Allah we will try and have another 2 or 3 books ready by the summer too.
Jazak’Allah Khair again for your feedback. Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah
Salaam,
May ALlah grant you with Jannah for all your efforts. Please make your book more affordable and available worldwide. I would suggest for you to print your books in Malaysia so that you can sell them affordable to 3rd world countries and better yet, travel to some muslim countries so that you can have more ideas for future books.WALlahu’alam.. bitaufiq wannajah