Comments on: Muslim Kids Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

By: Ponn Sabra

Ponn Sabra — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:29:46 +0000

Wa-alaykum asalam & way-ayakum.

InshaAllah, we’ll take a careful look at your site and definitely appreciate your support in our Summer Islamic Reading Program.

Wa salam.

By: saara

saara — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:40:06 +0000

Assalamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullah

JazakiAllah Khairan for taking time to reply. I look forward to you visiting the Guide to Muslim Children’s Books and Media (http://muslimkidsbooks.wordpress.com/ )and sharing your thoughts, ideas or questions, inshaAllah.

Of course, if the Reading Competition is on again this year, I would certainly want to write about it and let readers know about it, inshaAllah.

Best Wishes.
Masalaama.

By: Ponn Sabra

Ponn Sabra — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:06:01 +0000

Jazaka Allahkhir for your update.
We look forward to checking out your website, since we’re book lovers.
I’d love compare notes, as we have over 3 dozen Muslim Kids Book Reviews in a pile ready to be posted since our Summer Islamic Reading Program, and making our Muslim Kids Book Review form available here.

By: Ponn Sabra

Ponn Sabra — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:52:43 +0000

Wa-alaykum asalam.
Jazaka Allahu Khayrun for your kind words, assistance and support.
I take full responsibility for not editing my daughter’s review to make the two corrections you offered above.
We graciously amended our post.
JazakAllahkhir for sharing your website, we’ll definitely check it out!
Wa salam.

By: saara

saara — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:47:20 +0000

Salaams again:

My apologies for a slight error in my comment above. Genre does not refer to whether a book is fiction or non-fiction. Rather, genre refers a category of literature. Genres may be determined by technique, content or length. Therefore, when we say a book is a mystery, or an adventure, or a historical fiction or a science fiction or a folktale, we are talking about genre. “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is considered a fantasy novel.

If we talk about types of books, then we say that books are grouped into two types of books: Fiction and Non-Fiction.

So “Charlie and the Choclate Factory” is fiction and a fantasy novel.

May Allah reward you for the review. Please have a look at more reviews of books for Muslim children at the Guide to Muslim Children’s Books and Media – http://muslimkidsbooks.wordpress.com/ and share your comments and ideas as well, of course!

Have fun reading!

Wa’ alaykum assalam.

By: saara

saara — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:05:32 +0000

Assalamu ‘alaykum:

MashaAllah it is so wonderful to see a book review given by a young reader! Thanks for sharing your perspective on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one of my favourite books by the way!

I just want to point out two things:
1. The author of the book is Roald Dahl (not Ronald as shown above). This is important to know since anyone looking to buy this book or borrow the book from the library would need this information to be correct.
2. In terms of genre, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a novel and therefore it is referred to as fiction (and not non-fiction as shown above). Non-fiction means factual subject matter (real people, actual places, real events etc.) while fiction is the opposite and is based on imagination or made up by the author.

You might be interested in some other books for Muslim children that I have reviewed at the Guide to Muslim Children’s Books and Media (http://www.muslimkidsbooks.wordpress.com/), inshaAllah.

JazakAllah Khairan for your wonderful review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!

Masalaama