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New books and New ways to Buy

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Asalaamu’Alaikum

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

Time to Pray    ALLAH lets us have fun

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’ullahposted by Faruq

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Preview: ‘Time to Pray’

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Assalaamu’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:

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.

Here are some sample pages (click to enlarge):

Preview of Time to Pray

Preview of Time to Pray

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’ullahposted by Faruq

All images - copyright © 2009 StoneFaruq

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Preview: ‘Allah lets us have fun’

Friday, January 30th, 2009

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):

Preview of Allah lets us have fun

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):

Preview of Allah lets us have fun

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’ullahposted by Faruq

All images are copyright © 2009 StoneFaruq

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Where do I start?

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Assalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullah

I start in the midst of uncompleted websites, a couple of unfinished books, maybe close to completion (more of these later), and 2 other books (The Jolly Jamaat + Time for Isha’a), now printed, piled up in boxes and waiting for bookshops to take them from us. We’re still at the beginning of this publishing endeavour, but it’s taken some time to even reach this stage.

In short, where it started from, was a dissatisfaction with the choice of books that are available to Muslim children, not to say that there are no good ones, there are many from publishers like The Islamic Foundation and others, but there are not enough. We hope to make a positive contribution to our children insha’Allah, and provide a range of books that will entertain and educate insha’Allah.

The ‘we’ I refer to are the Stone (the missus) and Faruq (me) of StoneFaruq, this operation is a 2 person show right now. Time for Isha’a and The Jolly Jamaat are out of the door now, but insha’Allah we hope the standard of books will only get better, and I feel many of our best books are still to come. It was just chance that the first 2 books we released happened to be rhyming/counting books. The 2 that are near completion now, insha’Allah, are also pre-school books, but on different topics.

Allah lets us have fun is done is the same torn paper collage style as Time for Isha’a, but the rhyme speaks about the kind of everyday things we (or the kids in the book), can do, the blessings of Allah we all take for granted. Time to Pray is the other book nearing completion, done in simple sillouette illustrations, emphasises the importance of prayer, in this particular case, praying Fajr in jamaat.

Insha’Allah I will do my best to keep you updated about the latest goings on at SF, which will be easier once I actually have an internet connection at home, and particulatrly on the first books for older children, which we hope to get out sometime in ‘09 insha’Allah.

Wassalaamu’alaikum Warahmat’ullahposted by Faruq

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