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"McCaughrean could probably weave a mesmerizing tale from the copy on the back of a cereal box."--Publishers Weekly"Teachers and librarians will find this version a wonderful addition to school programs focusing on world literature." -- Territorial Tattler
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About the Author
Geraldine McCaughrean is a prize-winning author - winner of Carnegie Medal, Guardian Children's Fiction Award, Whitbread Award (twice) and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award.
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Product details
Age Range: 10 - 13 years
Grade Level: 5 - 6
Series: Oxford Story Collections
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; New Ed edition (January 6, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0192750135
ISBN-13: 978-0192750136
Product Dimensions:
7.8 x 0.7 x 5.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
58 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#75,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
A very approachable and hilarious collection of stories! I used this for middle-school aged students, who found the reading level just about right, but some of the story content took some careful in-class discussion (harems, concubines, a woman telling the stories so she doesn't have her head chopped off by her husband). However, once clear cultural and moral norms were introduced and discussed, prior to beginning the reading (and reviewed during certain stories, and all parents were provided with discussion points in advance so they could talk with their children), the plot of the individual characters in the stories was extremely engaging.
Reading this book is a pleasure, I'm just about done with it, but it's a good read, classic stories, and a few good laughs in between. I would recommend it to anyone, of any age, anywhere, any time. The one thing I would critique though is that I feel like the author changed some words to make it seem more modern, and I think it detracts from the story (e.g. they use the word chemist instead of alchemist). Otherwise you will recognize a LOT of the stories in this book from your childhood, and then you will understand where they came from.
I like some of the sly comments that the author Geraldine slipped into her retelling of the tales. In the story of the jinni and the fisherman, I'm quite sure that in the original the fisherman didn't make all the clever insults that goaded the jinni to get back into the bottle. It was brilliant and hilarious!!!
Words cannot describe the fantastic quality of this collection of Arabic literature. But don't get the book just to read the tale of Ala al-Din (Aladdin) and his Wonderful Lamp, because the other tales included surpass this merely moderate one by far - although it's interesting to find out that a black midget is Aladdin's primary nemesis (upon who Disney's Jafar is based, apparently).The stories touch on such a wide variety of unusual topics: a man's visit to the kingdom of mermaids, a dead beggar getting tripped over again and again, a guy claiming to have several volcanoes in a portable bag, a Sultan's escape from a buffalo-faced woman in the presence of a group of pink ladies, and the marriage of a prince to a turtle. Insane stuff.My favorite story is The Everlasting Shoes by far. It's quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever read. It's about an old miser who's so cheap he never buys new shoes. He just patches up the pair he has whenever they get holes. The addition of so many patches naturally make his shoes bigger and bigger. Eventually the shoes become ridiculously huge and heavy and smelly, and they make a lot of noise as the miser walks. The scene of the shoes being thrown into the river and getting caught in the millwork is well worth the price of the entire book.There's a story in here that looks VERY much like a mid-east version of Cinderella. Quite interesting.I am unable to tell how many liberties the author has taken in translating the tales, but they're definitely fun to read. There are tons of ancient day metaphors and funny insults like, "You flea on a cockroach's kneecap!" and "Son of a plank! Did you steal your brains from a table?" I really liked reading the misfortunes of the protagonist in the Keys of Destiny stories, and the nagging wives that appear sporadically are pretty darn funny.The things I didn't like about this book were very few. Only its frequent mentioning of Allah and the puzzling weakness of its 998th and 999th stories about a flying toy horse.I would recommend the Arabian Knights to anybody over the age of fifteen; probably because I was so surprised at the large amount of enjoyable humor.
I've been enjoying reading mythology and folktales from a variety of cultures recently. This collection of stories was fantastic and generally hewed more closely to traditional fairy tales than some of my other recent reads. Stories are short and easy to read prior to going to bed or during other brief intervals.
This is one of the best versions of these stories in my opinion, and is particularly suitable for older children who are ready to move beyond simple children's stories. The stories are only a bit "straightened up" for contemporay audiences, but they retain the language and the fanatastic elements that people turn to these Tales to enjoy. The stories also retain some of the violent and cruel plots twists of the original, another reason you may not want to use these as bedtime stories for little children.All the major Arabian Nights stories and most of the minor ones are included; and the "frame story" of the Shah and his clever wife is carried throughout the book very nicely. Each story told by Shahrezade serves a secondary purpose of advancing the tale of the royal couple's evolving relationship, and so the ending is more truly satisfying than in any other version of the Arabian Nights.The illustrations in 1996 edition by Stephan Lavis are good as well, and add to the storyland feeling of the tales. (The only quibble I have hear is with the white European look of most of the characters in the drawings.) I don't know about the pictures in the latest edition.
My wife and I were looking for a collection of the Arabian Nights stories that was authentic, yet also family friendly, since we intended them as bedtime stories for our children. This book gave us exactly what we were looking for. The stories have the feel of the Middle East and contain region and culture appropriate analogies that will be foreign to most. However, the stories were wonderfully devoid of the violence and sexual content that is contained in so many versions of these collections.
Bought this to read aloud with my children (ages 2-15) and while I didn't ever get too engrossed in the story my children enjoyed them (especially the 7, 9 and 13 year old). It was a little confusing at the beginning, keeping track of when we were in the story, versus just the storyteller, but they were completely appropriate for children, which is what I was looking for.
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