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Let’s Explore World Faith & Religion

Respecting and supporting the religious and cultural practices of others doesn’t threaten our faith, it’s just makes it stronger.

As an athiest-agnostic family, our kids have a healthy appreciation and respect for folks of faith. With these stories, we see how the foundation of our values are rooted in the same humane principles of justice, love, and interdependence.

Read:

• Winter Candle (ages 7-11)
• My Grandma and Me (ages 4-8)
• Yaffa and Fatima (ages 3.4-9)
• *Dear Mama God (ages 3-7)
• *Finding Om (ages 4-8)
• *A Lion’s Mane (ages 4-8)

Additional resources to dig deeper into this topic:

• How We Are All Connected – Interfaith Kids Books for the Winter Solstice
• Progressive Kids Books About Faith, Religion,& Spirituality – many religions are under-represented in this list, mostly because the big 4 publishers aren’t interested in publishing any stories beyond popular monotheistic religions with wealthy members.
• Interfaith friendship stories
• Books For Littles Favorite Winter Stories
• How Kids Look For The Good In Folks with ‘Oskar And The Eight Blessings’
• Cozy Kid’s Books To Warm Up Your Winter
• For adults: Parenting Forward Podcast: Cindy Wang Brandt helps parents heal from religious trauma, break toxic cycles, and raise children with healthy spirituality and conscious citizenship.
• *Saffron Press, Sikh-owned indie publisher fights discrimination with gorgeous books
• *Circumventing white fragility with South Asian indie press, Mango & Marigold
• Kids Stories About Muslim Experiences – Beyond the Month of Ramadan
• Raising Luminaries Devotionals for Radically Inclusive Agnostic Atheist Parents
• From Cerebellum: Was it a Cult? Childhood Poetry & Tea Time

*Disclosure and transparency! Daneen A. (author of Dear Mama God), Sailaja J. founder of Mango & Marigold Press (Finding Om), Navjot K., founder of Saffron Press (A Lion’s Mane), and Cindy Wang Brandt of Parenting Forward are friends of mine, and some have sent me free review copies of their books.