Aliya is an English revert to Islam and lives with her husband and six children in the UK. She gained her first award for a writing competition aged 10. She later began writing children’s stories while home schooling her children. In 2008, she won two awards at the Muslim Writers Awards for best children’s story and writer of the Year.
Rakaiya Azzouz has been illustrating for around ten years, specialising in Islamic children’s
books. Her passion is creating pieces of art that connect children to their
deen, through engaging, exciting, and emotive illustrations, particularly in
books. When she was very young, it would frustrate her to see that religious books
didn’t have the same standard of illustrations as non-religious books, so when she began illustrating, she set out to change that. Rakaiya has also been studying the Arabic language for several years.
