First and foremost, I am a mother. When I was a child my dream was to become an engineer, but at that time Qatar University did not offer engineering to girls. I ended up working as a teacher, and then as an administrator in public schools in Qatar. I became very interested in the field of education and wanted to continue in this profession. Based on that, I established a private kindergarten called “Sama Kindergarten” where I worked on for eighteen years. I am also an avid reader. I have never forgotten the first book I bought from the first annual book fair in Doha. It was an English book covered with colorful drawings and interesting information. Now, I have a large library with many books. There are many types of readers. I am an exploratory reader who does not like to read the book from cover to cover, but rather I move from one paragraph to another. Colored books and ones with illustrations tend to catch my eye as well. I do not like novels, while science books are my favorite. My love for science books made me very keen on directly, or indirectly, providing children’s stories with scientific information. For example, in one of the stories, we made a walnut the queen, and after completing the story we presented it to a child and showed them pictures of the walnut and the shape of the brain as well. Following that presentation, we asked a question: Why was the walnut chosen as a queen? The child deduced through the picture that the walnut resembles the brain, and through that deduction, the child learned that the walnut is food for the brain. Books are of great interest to me, and as a mother, I have been searching for children’s books for my son as he was growing up. I was searching for books that suited different stages of a child’s life, and found that obtaining literary books in Arabic for a one-year-old child was impossible. I was sad about that and contented myself with working with foreign books, but it was too sorrowful. I wanted to get the best and most exciting of what was available at the time. However, during the time I worked in independent schools and we had to curate a list of books for them to use and store. Although I was passionate about the job and enjoyed researching for books, I found it difficult to find books in Arabic relatable to our culture and civilization for children. These books existed, but they were highly inaccessible, and their content was not diverse. Both accessibility and diversity were very important factors for me as a mother and as a teacher. Consequently, I wanted to enter this field not as a writer but as a researcher. I attended some training courses, the first of which was the “Symbolic Stories” workshop. The workshop was quite insightful and enriching, as we were asked to write a story. A symbolic story aims to come up with a symbol and use it for intervention, education, or any other field. I wrote “The Story of Zero” which was about the number zero, wherein the story the students used to laugh at the number zero for being “nothing.” That zero decided to change its status and stood to the right of number one and it became ten, and when he stood to the right of number two it became twenty, and so the numbers began to thank him for his favor. A while after this story was delivered, I found out that it was published but in another author’s name! At that time, I had mixed feelings; I felt happy that my story was chosen to be published, but I also felt sad because it was not published under my name. In general, this situation was significant to me, as it became clear to me that I have the ability to write and implement such an idea, and I considered it my starting point. At the same time, I developed training material on making children’s reading materials more interactive for students and make it inspiring enough for reflection, criticism, and dialogue. I wanted to turn the idea of reading into something fun for children. I gained experience by offering these training sessions, in addition to my university studies and my educational background. I thought at the time that we must work on training authors on how to write purposeful Arabic children’s literature and publish our books that add value to the State of Qatar.