 All right, so the first book, Peg and Kat, the Eid al-Adha adventure, by Jennifer Oxley and Billy Aronson. Can I put it on the floor? Can I put it on the floor? Okay. Thank you. Kind of tall. Sorry. All right, Bismillah. In Kat, we're visiting their friends Yassmina and Amir during a very special holiday. It was Eid al-Adha, a holiday Yassmina and Amir celebrated every year. Peg and Kat had never even heard of Eid al-Adha until Yassmina and Amir invited them to the celebration to check it out. We're going to make your first Eid al-Adha the best ever. Said Yassmina, let's rock out, said Amir. They said, they sang, Amir here and Yassmina the machine, rocking the house just like rocking the arena. Got my new tie and jacket, sang Amir. Got my best hijab, said Yassmina. Got my suit, Kat said, has a scarf on, sang Peg. I'm no slob, sang Kat. This is actually a cartoon show too. You can watch the episode. It's on PBS Kids, yeah. Eid al-Adha is really fun, said Yassmina. There are presents and lots of food. But mostly, said Amir, it's about giving to those with less. I like the presents and food, said Kat, but giving stuff away? How is that fun? You'll see, said Amir. Peg drew pictures of plates with food on them to remind Kat, what Eid al-Adha is really about. This sign means less, she said. This one means more than. I like the more sign better, said Kat. Amir played his stringed instrument called an Yassmina played her electric guitar. Peg and Kat played ukulele and drums as their hosts sang about the holiday. Eid mubarak means happy holiday. So we say Eid mubarak as we celebrate. On Eid al-Adha, even Tat is going to see how awesome giving can be. We'll see if I see, said Kat. Time to go to the celebration. Every year, we bring this silver tray, Yassmina explained, filled with almonds, olives, apricots, and I love apricots, said Peg. Then let's add more, said Yassmina. Are those honey cakes? Kat asked. Should we? Yassmina added. More, said Kat. More, more. Do you think Kat likes the honey cakes? I think so too. One important tradition, said Amir, is dividing the meat into three equal parts. When you have three equal parts of something, each part is a third, said Peg. We keep one third, we give one third to our neighbors, and we give one third to share with someone with less. Less what? asked Kat. Well, food or clothes, the basic stuff that everyone needs, said Peg. We have divided the meatballs into three parts. The three bowls all have different amounts of meat, Amir, said Peg. But I put the same number of meatballs in each bowl, said Amir. But the meat bowls are different sizes though. If we don't divide the meat into three equals parts, this won't be the best read ever. We've got a big problem. Peg noticed, Kat playing with a pair of small swinging pans. That's it, she said. The pan balance. Do you guys think you could help them with their problem? It's not a problem? Why? Why is it not a problem? But there's two, two and two. So isn't that fair? Why is that not fair? Because this one has tiny meatballs and this one has humongous meatballs. But it's the same amount. But they don't have the same amount of meat in each. Okay, let's see what they do. Peg put one pair of bowls on the pan balance. This pan goes down because the bowl on it has more meat. It's heavier, she said. But we can take from more and give to less, said Amir, until the pans are the same level, said Yasmina. The meat in the bowls weigh the same. How do we know they weigh the same? What's it showing us? An equal sign. The, uh, Peg replaced one bowl on the balance with the third bowl. Those weighs the same too. They all weigh the same. Problem solved. I need robotics, said Kat. The end. Not, not the end. I wanted to see if you were paying attention. The group headed out for the party. But first they had to drop off a third of the meat to someone with less. We've come to the soup kitchen because the people who eat here have less, said Yasmina. At the soup kitchen, they can each get a good free meal. As the door to the soup kitchen opened, Amir said, it's run by Ramon, said Peg. Kat took the bowl from Peg and handed it to Ramon. We hate to run and eat, but we have a party to go to, he said. Oh, I almost didn't show you guys the picture. Said Ramon, I really need your help. There's a man who lives in that building across the yard. He's always comes here for meals, but today he hasn't come. I wonder if he's sit or if those crates of canned food, uh, that were just delivered are blocking his way. Oh no, they have another really big problem. Let's see what they do. Can he order takeout, asked Kat? No, said Peg. Today's about giving. We're going to give. We'll cross the yard with the meatballs. The crates were piled so high. Kat wondered how they would ever get past them. Let's count the crates to find the piles with less, said Yasmina. They'll be easier to step over. So what is their solution? What are they going to try and do? Yeah, so they're going to count the crates to see which ones have less to see if those would be easier to step over. They stepped across a pile that had only one crate and another pile of two crates. One is less than six, said Peg, and 10 is more than two, said Kat. But there were even more crates to get past. Yasmina and Amir were totally freaking out. Kat held up his paws. Kat's right, said Peg. You should count backwards too. You calm down. We'll count from seven, said Yasmina. We like seven. Seven days of the week. Seven colors of the rainbow. What else has seven? What did we learn today? We do seven times. Seven stones for jamarad. Seven times to wafer on the Kaaba. Good. Seven times to seven. Marwa, masha'Allah. So let's all count down from seven. Can you guys count down with me? Seven. Six. Thank you guys. As they counted, Kat gazed at those juicy meatballs. He was about to take a bite. When Peg shouted, that's it. That's it. That's it, you meatball-loving Kat. We'll divide the crates into thirds, just like we did with the meatballs. That'll be easier to move. Problem solved. So they're gonna make the big crates smaller. When Peg knocked on the door, she heard a familiar voice invite them in. Mack asked Peg, I've had some bad luck, Mack explained. I usually go to Ramon's soup kitchen for food. Last night I stubbed my toe and this morning I stubbed another toe. I'm not going any place. You don't have to, said Yasmina. We brought you meatballs. Mack was so hungry that he ate the meatballs quickly and then for dessert, Amir and Peg offered him olives and apricots. Kat wanted to keep the honey cakes for himself, but he remembered that Edel Abha is about giving to those with less. So he took the tray over to Mack. Would you like a honey cake? Kat asked, the honey cakes, said Mack. Kat gasped. Hey, giving does feel good. You're all so nice, said Mack. I don't know what to say. I do, said Peg. The end. Masha Allah. That was very nice lesson for Peg and Kat to learn about Edel Abha. What do you guys think? So what did they teach Peg and Kat? What did they teach them? That, um, Edel Abha is more special. What should we do with our meat on Edel Abha? How should we do it? How should we divide our meat on Edel Abha? So we chop? Okay. One, two, three. So we learned in Hajj that we slaughter a sheep or a goat or a camel, right? One of those animals. So now what do we do with the meat? What do we learn from Peg and Kat that we do with the meat? We divide it into three parts. Do we keep all three parts? No. We keep it all? Yeah. I don't know about that. That'd be greedy. What should we do with the three parts that we, that we do? We give one third to our neighbors, one third to those who have left, and then we keep one third for ourselves.