Saif's Special Patches
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Saif is "just shy," or at least that's what everyone tells him. When his mom comforts him with a patchwork quilt made of his special memories, he remembers that he's so much more.
He was brave when he went down the biggest slide at the Eid picnic. He was smart when he won the scavenger hunt among his friends. He was persistent when it took him a year to learn to read the Quran. He's helpful when he lends a hand to clean up the mosque.
Saif isn't just shy. Like his patchwork quilt, he is still growing.
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Past successes sewn into a precious quilt help a boy to work through self-doubt in this reassuring picture book about growth taking time. Wrapped in the quilt, young Saif prefers not to join his friends outside: "I'm shy," he says. To remind Saif of his bravery in a prior moment, his ami references a patch on the quilt, begun when Saif was a baby, that incorporates his old clothes—"This patch is from the shirt you wore to the Eid picnic last year." As Saif seeks to learn and grow, his attempts backfire, but loved ones, via the quilt squares, remind him of previous wins. And when the imam asks Saif to give the call to prayer, the child leans into his strengths while understanding that, like the quilt, "he's still growing." In smudgy, pastel-textured illustrations, Sader portrays key moments past and present alongside Saif's unreservedly earnest endeavors. Characters are portrayed with various skin tones. Ages 4–9.
