Ali Baba put down his axe and wondered if the magic words really would have any effect on the massive stone door blocking the entrance to the cave. He stood up tall, and in his loudest and most commanding voice shouted 'Open sesame!'
This book is part of a book series called Real Reads .
There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Real Reads .
An Egyptian writer based in the United Arab Emirates, Abdul-Fattah Sabri is currently the editorial director of Al-Rafid literary magazine. He has more than 25 publications to his name, including stories, novels, theatre and poetry. He is especially interested and involved in Emirati literature. Sura Ghazwan is an Iraqi children's story writer and illustrator. Born in 1989, she graduated from Baghdad University with a degree in English translation. She has practiced visual art for as long as she remembers, has had several exhibitions, and won a number of awards.
This book contains the following story:
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
There was once two brothers called Ali Baba and Cassim. Whilst Cassim married a rich woman, Ali Baba married poor and worked as a woodcutter. One day Ali observed forty men entering and then leaving a cave weighed down with gold. He tried the secret password - open sesame - and was able to gain entrance and fill his own bags with gold. His wife was delighted but when his broteher discovered the secret he too wanted the gold. Ali gave him the secret password, and Cassim managed to enter the cave but once inside was so distracted by the gold he could not remember the password to escape. Whilst he was stuck in the cave the robbers returned and deprived him of his gold and his life.
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Real Reads
Real Reads are retellings of great literature from around the world, each fitted into a 64-page book. The series aims to make classic stories, dramas and histories available to intelligent young readers as a bridge to the full texts, to language students wanting access to other cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the original versions.
