For Release: On Receipt Contact: Linda D. Delgado, publisher@muslimwriterspublishing.com Retired State Policewoman/Islamic Convert's Award-Winning Children's Book Series Promotes Peace and Tolerance: Middle-Reader Chapter Books Won Excellence Award, Sold to Foreign Publisher, Available Again TEMPE, ARIZONA: “After the events of September 11, 2001, I felt it was important to help people understand the religion of Islam and to promote religious, cultural and ethnic tolerance,” Delgado said. Delgado continues, “I wrote the children’s Islamic Rose Book series hoping that fictional stories, told through the eyes and words of children, will help people realize that in spite of the terrible tragedies that occurred, Muslim and non-Muslim can live together in peace, cooperation, and tolerance.” Her main character, Rose, and the multicultural and multi-religious group of young school girls dubbed the Hijab-Ez Friends use their differences and beliefs as their strength to solve problems they have in common at home and school. The books are semi-autobiographical and reflect Delgado’s experience hosting two Saudi police officers in a year-long cultural/educational exchange that led her eventually to convert to Islam. “The writing is terse, though not sparse, free-flowing, but not shallow. I, personally, plan to introduce these books in our Islamic school and also to donate them to our local library. Definitely recommend for your book shelves!” --Yahiya Emerick, Muslim author and educator In 2005, Delgado established Muslim Writers Publishing and is now publishing her work and that of other American Muslim authors. Muslim Writers Publishing has just republished the Islamic Rose Books series of four chapter books for middle grades: The Visitors, Hijab-Ez Friends, Stories and Saying Goodbye. The series was awarded the 2005 Excellence in Media, Literary Arts Award from the Association of Muslim Women in America, Inc. In 2004 the Islamic Rose Books series was translated into the Indonesian language and published in that country. In 2005, Delgado created the Grandma & Hijab-Ez comic strip based on her books and published in various media. Learn more about Delgado’s work at her websites: www.MuslimWritersPublishing.com and www.widad-lld.com. # Journalists: Delgado is available for interviews. Islamic Rose Books Backgrounder: The Visitors 176 pages and ISBN 0-9767861-1-7 Hijab-Ez Friends 160 pages and ISBN 0-9767861-6-0 Stories 144 pages and ISBN 0-9767861-7-6 Saying Goodbye 156 pages and ISBN 0-9767861-8-4 Cookbook Just Published 2006 Halal Food, Fun and Laughter 132 pages and ISBN 0-9767861-5-X ###