The Arabian Nights

The kind of story that entertains children and adults, kings and queens, the rich and the poor, the kind of story your grandmother told. Shahriyar, embittered ruler of Ctesiphon, has been betrayed by his wife. Now he takes a new bride each day and puts her to death in the morning. But one woman, Shahrazade, believes she has the power to heal his pain. Every night she entrances him with wonderful stories of magic jars and diamond anklets, enchanted princes and loyal princesses, flying carpets and fabulous palaces. The Arabian Nights is a collection of fables, fairy tales and adventure stories from across India, Persia and the Arab world. Wafa Tarnowska has based the eight action packed adventures on a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, selecting the stories she heard as a child and transporting young readers to a world where supernatural and everyday sit side by side.