London (CNN) Author J.K. Rowling has provided a welcome diversion for a seven-year-old girl living in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, sending her eBooks of the entire Harry Potter series. - Bana #Aleppo #StandWithAleppo pic.twitter.com/MHtOIFzwuIFatemah teaches her children -- Mohamed, 5, Noor, 3, and Bana -- at home. A photograph shared to her Twitter account on Thursday shows Mohamed and Noor crowded around Bana like two bookends while she read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. - Bana #Aleppo pic.twitter.com/ZW6AGggOZj — Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) November 24, 2016Earlier this week Fatemah tweeted to J.K. Rowling, saying that her family had watched the Harry Potter film, and that Bana was hoping to read the book. Thinking of you, keep safe #Aleppo," Rowling repliedFatemah told CNN that they are reading the first book in the Harry Potter series "little by little," in between the bombardment.

Source: CNN November 25, 2016 18:36 UTC