The Visitors by Linda (Widad) Delgado

The Hijab-Ez Books by Linda (Widad) Delgado

A delightful series intending to entertain and educate the minds of the young, on living and Islam.

Book 1, The Visitors

In the Name of Allah, the Bestower of all

Nine year old Rose lives with her Dad. Next door is her beloved Grandma and Grandpa. Grandma’s invited two Saudi Muslims, the gentle and well mannered Fahd and Abdul, to stay at her house for a year, while they study their chosen careers as police officers. Since Grandma, Grandpa and Dad are all police officers, Grandma thought it would be a brilliant idea. Rose thinks so too. The surprise comes when Rose’s dad doesn’t like the idea that Rose will be around Muslims, and feels that Fahd and Abdul will influence Rose’s thinking. What Rose needs is a PLAN. And that’s what she does best…

I thought that the book was not written so well, with an overuse of exclamation marks. A younger audience would not mind that very much anyhow, they’ll be more interested in Rose’s chats with Jams, her journal. Jams stands for; Journal of Arab Muslim Stuff, and Rose calls it ‘Jammie’ lovingly. Jammie is packed with interesting information about Islam that Rose learns from the two officers and new words that they utter, like ‘Subhannallah’ and ‘Alhamdullilah.’

We’ll use Rose’s favorite word to describe this book, Awesome!