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Arabic Folktales: The Three Princes of Serendip and Other Stories
by Retold by Rodaan Al Galidi
Age Range: 6-8
Award-winning author Rodaan Al Galidi makes his children’s book debut with this beautiful collection of twenty retold folk tales and fables, translated from Dutch by Laura Watkinson, which he heard as a child growing up in Iraq. Stories, he says, “are the best travellers and the most successful migrants”, because they change a little in every place they find themselves just as people do.
Exquisitely illustrated by cut-paper artist Geertje Aalders, there are stories about kings, sheikhs, animals, death, and love, and often there is a moral in the tale. As well as The Three Princes of Serendip there is the story of a king and a man who has everything in The Man Who Was Never Satisfied – “if you are satisfied with what you have you are rich.” As the king offers more land to the man, who can only see that he will become richer and richer, he is never able to understand this simple message. In the Strict Sheikh, a sheikh feared God rather than loved him and only learns his lesson from a simpler herder who lives in the desert. The Ant and the Cockroach is a story from Lebanon about an ant who loved to work and a singing Cockroach who didn’t, but somehow they compromise and learn to accept one another. The Wise Man and the Scorpion is a tale of a wise man who saves a scorpion despite getting stung – “It is in the scorpion’s nature to sting. And it is in my nature to help. Why should I let his nature win, and not mine.” the man replies when asked why he allows himself to be repeatedly stung.
Al Galidi was born in southern Iraq but in 1998 he went to the Netherlands where he lived in an asylum seekers’ centre for nine years. Although he was not allowed to work during this time, he was able to write – and, has continued to do so ever since. Writing in Dutch, he is the author of several award-winning collections of poetry and novels.






























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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