Education Resource Area: Middle Eastern Literature

Pre K-3

K-3

K-3

3-7

From the Mayan people of Central America to the Xhosa people of Southern Africa, from the ancient mythology of China to the legendary Arabian Nights, every culture across the globe has its princesses. The princesses themselves may be as diverse as the lands they represent, but rich or poor, vain or wise, brave or spoiled, they have one thing in common: they all live happily ever after. Selected from world folklore and presented in a richly designed, elegantly illustrated volume, this lavish gift book is the definitive gathering of princess lore. 1-5

An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story. K-4

1-6

Pre k-3

A ten-year-old Lebanese boy balances his life in a war-torn city. 2-6

Iraq

When young Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, his arrival changes everything for the other overworked and abused chidren there. 3-7

The Breadwinner is set in Afghanistan, where 11-year-old Parvana lives with her family in a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul. 3-7

On a military base in post-Taliban Afghanistan, American authorities have just imprisoned a teenaged girl found in a bombed-out school. 6-9

A sequel to The Breadwinner, this novel tells the story of Parvana's journey once she leaves Kabul to search for her family. 3-7

When Nadia is chosen to be a flower girl in Auntie Laila's traditional Pakistani wedding, her hands are decorated with beautiful designs made withmehndi,and she comes to understand the rich culture she has inherited. K-4

K-4

A retelling of three tales from the Arabian Nights including Aladdin, The Queen of the Serpents, and Ubar, the lost city of Brass.. 2-4

These datebooks are a personal day planner, designed in a weekly format that features more than sixty Western photographs from the Stoecklein Collection. 3-6

Iraq

An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story.