Middle Eastern Tales for Children

Bahador Toroghi Moayer, Mosque, 1999

The Persian Cinderella J 398.2 C
Climo, Shirley; illus. by Robert Florczak
Settareh, neglected and abused by her stepmother and stepsisters, finds her life transformed with the help of a little blue jug. (HarperCollins, 1999)

Shadow Spinner J
Fletcher, Susan
Marjan enters the Sultan's harem where she gathers stories which to help save the Shaharazad's life. (Atheneum, 1998)

The Day of Ahmed's Secret J
Heide, Florence Parry; illus. by Ted Lewin
A young Egyptian boy describes the city of Cairo as he waits to share a special surprise with his family. (Lothrop, 1990)

The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story J 398.2 H
Hickox, Rebecca; illus. by Will Hillenbrand
Based on a Cinderella story from Iraq called "The little red fish and the clog of gold" in Inea Bushnaq's Arab folktales. (Holiday House, 1998)

The Stone: A Persian Legend of the Magi J 398.2 H
Hofmeyr, Dianne; illus. by Jude Daly
A retelling of the story told to Marco Polo about the Magi of Saveh, the three wise men from a town in Persia, who followed a strange star and found a special child. (Farrar, 1998)

The Roses in My Carpets J
Khan, Rukhsana; illus. by Ronald Himler
A young refugee of the war in Afghanistan finds some comfort in the beauty of the carpets he is learning to weave. (Holiday House, 1998)

The Tale of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp: A Story from the Arabian Nights J
Kimmel, Eric A.
Aladdin, with the aid of a genie from a magic lamp, fights an evil sorcerer and wins the hand of a beautiful princess. (Holiday House, 1992)

The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves J
Kimmel, Eric A.
A retelling of the familiar tale of wit triumphant and greed punished. (Holiday House, 1996)

The Storytellers J
Lewin, Ted
Abdul and Grandfather pass through the streets of Fez, Morocco, and stop at an old gate, where Grandfather performs as a storyteller. (Lothrop, 1998)

The Hundredth Name J
Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey
Salah, a boy living in Egypt, wants to lift his camel's sadness, so he prays that the camel will learn Allah's hundredth name. (Boyds Mills, 1997)

The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor J 398.2 Y
Yeoman, John, retel.; illus. by Quentin Blake
Sinbad sets off on a series of seven voyages in search of adventure. (McElderry, 1997)