Sheherazade, the king's beautiful wife, is due to be executed at dawn -- unless she can convince the king to change his mind. That night she tells him a wonderful story which, as dawn comes, she leaves unfinished. 'Will you let me live to finish the tale?' she asks. 'Of course,' replies the king, 'I must know what happens next.' Night after night, Sheherazade tells story after story, always leaving the last one incomplete. And so for one thousand and one nights, she remains alive... This is how the enchanting collection of stories known as One Thousand and One Nights has been passed down to us. It includes the well-known stories Sheherazade, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The Ox and the Ass and The Horse of Ebony and How the story of Sheherazade ended. In this beautiful new edition the stories are brought to life by the enchanting, elegant illustrations of Olga Dugina.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 8-11 years.

There are 88 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2009 by Floris Books .

Olga Dugina was born in Moscow in 1964 and was passionate about drawing and painting from her early childhood. She studied at the Krasnopresnenskaya Art School in Moscow, where she met her husband, fellow illustrator Andrej Dugin. She went on to graduate from the Moscow Arts College. C. J. Moore has degrees in modern languages and linguistics from the universities of Oxford and Edinburgh. For many years he worked as author and editor for Heinemann Educational Books. He is well-known as author of the award-winning Ishtar and Tammuz (Frances Lincoln), Peter William Butterblow; The Fire Bird; and Wild Goose Lake (Floris Books). He also edited the concise Carmina Gadelica, a major anthology of Gaelic oral poetry. His most recent book is In Other Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the Most Intriguing Words Around the World (Walker Books US, Oxford University Press UK, 2005).