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Three Gifts of Love — 208 pp., soft cover, 210 by 148mm, b/w illustrations
Jacqueline Mehrabi’s newest book for children and junior youth, with delightful illustrations by Lisa Jackson, is just published by Brilliant Books based in Belgium.
The book, Three Gifts of Love, is a collection of wonderful and inspiring stories about the life of Abdu’l-Bahá, The Purest Branch and Shoghi Effendi, adapted masterfully by Jackie Mehrabi to assist the younger members of the community to know and love them. The beautiful and true to life illustrations of Lisa Jackson give the book an extra dimension and bring these stories closer to ones heart.
As the art of story telling is becoming more and more a significant creative element of the sequence of courses, this book, with its treasury of stories about these special figures of our Faith, would be valuable a resource for parents in particular, as well as anyone who enjoys story books.

Discovering the Sun — 160 pp., soft cover, 210 by 148mm, b/w illustrations
Discovering the Moon — 136 pp., soft cover, 210 by 148mm, b/w illustrations
Verily the religion of God is like unto heaven;
fasting the sun and obligatory prayer is its moon.
These two books, also by Jackie Mehrabi, are captivating tales of spiritual growth and community life set in the Orkney Islands. Together with Fern, the fifteen-year-old central character of the books, the reader is taken on an exploration of the spiritual principles underlying fasting and the obligatory prayers. A 15 year old youth growing up in a Bahá’í family and being part of a small community, Fern has many questions about life and spiritual obligations, and finds many answers in different ways, sometimes by observing nature, other times by discussion with a wonderful great grandpa and by deep reflection on the words of Bahá’u’lláh. The books contain beautiful illustrations by Susan Reed.
These are books suitable for children, junior youth, and parents to read with their children, and would make great intercalary day presents; all are available from Brilliant Books,
Lombaardenstraat 5/1, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
F: (32)16-23.74.75, E: info@brilliant-books.com