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