The Horn Book Guide

RELIGION

Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane

Celebrating Ramadan

32 pp. | Holiday | September, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-8234-1581-3 $$16.95

(3) 4-6 Photographs by Lawrence Migdale. The experience of fourth-grader Ibraheem is used to focus a picture of religious and cultural tradition as expressed in a major holiday. The author and photographer do an equable job of conveying Ramadan's rituals, obligations, and joys. They provide general information about Islamic practices in the United States and some history of the faith. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2002