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Amira's Picture Day
Reem Faruqi
Illustrator: Fahmida Azim
Ages: 6+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 978-0-8234-4019-1
Keywords: South Asian Americans, Islam, Muslim holidays
Amira loves celebrating Eid at the end of Ramadan; but it's also picture day at school, and she longs to be there too. Lively, digital illustrations of diversie worshippers at her mosque. Back matter.