Stories about friendship for Muslim kids

Many are gentle everyday tales. A cat spares a mouse and their promise grows into a friendship, a club for animals with dots learns to let everyone join, and a bear's friends find a patient way to coax him out of his cave. In wordless animated films, a big grinning whale looks for playmates and a sneezing elephant is looked after by his friends.

Other titles take on the harder side. A shy girl stands up to bullies who wreck a deaf boy's sandcastles, a quiet boy speaks up for a teased classmate, and a girl who loves to gossip loses her friends. In a longer audiobook for older children, Salah ad-Din asks a boy to turn a young crusader from an enemy into a friend.

Pacca Alpaca and his friends appear in many short videos, travelling, counting and finding colours together, while animal friends in Madinah set off on a secret mission to see the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. The story of Abu Bakr shows a friend who stood by the Prophet ﷺ all his life.

The Prophet ﷺ taught us to tell people when we love them, and to speak good or stay silent. Each title's page gives its lessons and a few questions to talk over, which can help after a quarrel at school or when a friend has been left out.