Jo Napoli, Donna 1948-.

Tales from the Arabian Nights / Donna Jo Napoli ; Retold by Anne Collins. - Simplified ed. - Harlow : Pearson Education Ltd, 2008. - 45 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm. + 2 CDs. - Penguin Readers .

Includes reading activities.

"Sheherezade is beautiful and clever. She also knows a thousand and one wonderful stories. Her husband wants to kill her, but he can't. Sheherezade tells him stories about a clever servant girl and a boy judge, about Ali Baba and Aladdin. What happens next? Her husband wants to know. He listens - and she lives." (Book Cover) CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: The Sultan and Sheherezade Chapter 2: Behind the Door Chapter 3: Sultan Haroun Laughs
Chapter 4: Faisal and the Barber Chapter 5: The Boy Judge Chapter 6: The Dwarf of Basra Chapter 7: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Chapter 8: The End of the Forty Thieves Chapter 9: The Thief and the Donkey Chapter 10: Aladdin and the Lamp Activities

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Graded Readers.


Middle East --Tales.


Graded Readers.