By Medeia Cohan
A sturdy board book that names the head coverings worn across several faiths, one bright page and one real word at a time. A gentle first book for a unit on world religions.
The idea is simple: many religious people wear something on their heads to show their love of God, and this board book shows what those coverings are and who wears them. Each page holds one covering against a flat, glowing background — a hijab, a kippah, a turban, a wimple, a Rasta hat — with its name, how to say it out loud, and a plain line about the person who might wear it. There's no story and no argument, just a dozen calm introductions drawn from the Jewish, Sikh, Christian, Muslim, and Rastafarian traditions. It's built for the very youngest in the room, with thick pages that hold up to small hands, and it gives every covering the same treatment: here it is, here's its name, here's who wears it.
For a subject that can feel enormous, this may be as concrete as an introduction gets. It asks nothing of a class except to look and name — no beliefs to weigh, no story to follow, just real people and the real things they wear. Every covering gets identical treatment, one flat page and one respectful sentence, so no faith comes across as stranger or more central than another, which is the balance a religion unit wants from its very first book. And because the pronunciation guide sits right on the page, saying the words out loud becomes something your English learners can do right alongside everyone else.