Rodhan Al Khalidi
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
123 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The twenty fables and folktales in this illustrated storybook have taken a long journey. Many have roots that stretch across Europe, Asia, and Africa, but when ... Rodaan Al Galidi learned them in his homeland of Iraq, it was as Arabic folktales and as part of the Arabic storytelling tradition. When he migrated to the Netherlands, he shaped twenty of those tales into his debut book for children, which was translated to English by Laura Watkinson....