About the Book . . .


Will Peacock learn much more when the biggest surprise of his life draws closer to him?

Explore through this FUN-filled rhyming ADVENTURE!

If you would love to swing through a deep rainforest, dodge boomerang bananas, enjoy bursts of laughter and build friendships through spreading kindness. Then come and join Peacock and his friends and leap into their wild adventure.  

Musammat Nazifa S. Khan has written and illustrated her first book, The Peacock Who Shared His Feathers which was first published in June 2023. The story portrays the emotions that the animals experience, for example, kindness, empathy, joy, generosity, anger and fear overcome by bravery. The examples throughout the story, encourage children to connect and value their own emotions. Enabling them to relate their feelings to their daily experiences and transitions in life. 

Musammat's aim is for children to enjoy reading through her fun rhyming adventure picture book and learn to spread love and kindness through the morals in her story.

She also aims to carry out visits to local primary schools in order to support and encourage children with reading and writing. The visit includes to present big reads and fun activities relating to her story book.

About the Author . . .

Musammat Khan was born in London.  In 1993 her family moved to Bedford where she spent most of her childhood growing up. During her educational tenure after high school and college, she studied Interior Architecture and graduated in 2013. She later decided to balance her family and work life, spending quality time raising her children. She developed a love for teaching by home schooling her two children during the COVID in 2020.  This inspired her to work in the education sector after further studies in 2021. She has worked to support children and young adults in classrooms.  Musammat’s passion for writing sparked through her own favourite collection of stories and anthologies throughout her childhood.  Her enthusiasm for writing this book was harboured and developed by telling her own creative stories to her children.