The Stories of The Prophets: Children's Workbook

It's built for ages 6–12. Younger kids (5–7) love it when a parent reads aloud and helps with the activities. Older kids can work through it on their own.

No. There are no faces and no figures anywhere in the book — not the prophets, not their families, not the people around them. Every page is painted landscape, sea, sky and objects: the ark, the well, the staff, the whale. We made that decision so you never have to explain a drawing away, and so the book can sit in any home or any masjid.

The Qur’an. Each story is retold from the Qur’anic account, and every ayah it draws on is cited by sūrah and verse on the page, so you can open the muṣḥaf and check. Where the Qur’an doesn’t give a detail, the book doesn’t invent one. 

Six to ten is the heart of it: you read, your child answers. Eleven and twelve can run it themselves and use the question page like a journal. Under six, read the story, skip the writing, and let them colour the star.

About ten minutes a night. One story, one question your child answers out loud, one Name of Allah, one star to colour. One night a week finishes in ten weeks. One night every evening finishes in ten days.

Not “what happened?” but “what would you have done?” — in the well with Yusuf, inside the whale with Yunus, in front of the fire with Ibrahim. Your child answers out loud and you listen. That’s the whole method. Learning research calls it the generation effect: a child keeps what they’ve answered for themselves far longer than what they’ve been told.

No. The book is in English. Each ayah is given in Arabic with its meaning beside it, and the back of the book has a “How to Say the Words” guide for every Arabic term and every Name of Allah. If you can read this page, you can run the ten nights.

No. Qasas al-Anbiya is the classical title for this whole genre, and this is a children’s book in that tradition, not a translation. Ten stories, retold for a child to hear, answer and keep.