9 - 12 Years

Fatima the Spinner and the Tent (Dari-English) $18.95

Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another. Setting forth on a journey from her home in the West, she is shipwrecked and cast ashore alone near Alexandria. Adopted by a family of weavers,...

Neem the Half-Boy (Dari-English) $18.95

The Queen of Hich-Hich fails to follow the instructions given to her by Arif the Wise Man, and, as a result, gives birth to a half-boy. Neem makes himself complete by an act of cleverness, negotiation and compromise. This...

The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water (Dari-English) $18.95

When the good-natured Share the Lion, King of all the animals, sees his reflection in a pool of water, he gasps at the fierce creature staring back at him and is too frightened to drink - until finally, he learns to overcome...

The Man and the Fox (Dari-English) $18.95

A man tricks a young fox into believing that he will give him a chicken. The fox is trapped, but through ingenuity and perseverance, he escapes. Reading this story inspires children to face challenges directly, and even to...

The Magic Horse (Dari-English) $17.95

The Magic Horse is the story of two brothers, one skilled in the practical arts, and the other, Prince Tambal, considered by most people to be only a dreamer. Their father, the King, announces a competition to produce...

The Silly Chicken (Dari-English) $18.95

The Silly Chicken is a delightful and humorous tale about a chicken who learns to speak as we do - with surprising and unexpected consequences. The events that follow intrigue young children and, and at the same time, alert...

The Old Woman and the Eagle (Dari-English) $18.95

In this amusing story, an old woman encounters an eagle for the first time. Perplexed by its unfamiliar appearance, she decides to change it to suit her own ideas of what a bird should look like. Her efforts mirror a common...

The Farmer's Wife (Dari-English) $17.95

The story of The Farmer's Wife tells how a woman first loses an apple into a hole in the ground, and then attempts a series of efforts to get it back. Children enjoy learning to repeat the sequence from memory, and when the...

The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal (Dari-English) $18.95

When a boy visits another village, he is amazed to find the townspeople terrified of something that - just because they have not seen it before - they mistake for a terrible, dangerous animal. With his own knowledge and by...

The Boy Without a Name (Dari-English) $18.95

On the day a boy is born, his parents are visited by a wise man who says, "This is a very, very important boy, and I'm going to give him something marvelous one day, but I will have to give him his name first. So please...

Neem the Half-Boy (Urdu-English) $18.95

The Queen of Hich-Hich fails to follow the instructions given to her by Arif the Wise Man, and, as a result, gives birth to a half-boy. Neem makes himself complete by an act of cleverness, negotiation and compromise. This...

Fatima the Spinner and the Tent (Urdu-English) $18.95

Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another. Setting forth on a journey from her home in the West, she is shipwrecked and cast ashore alone near Alexandria. Adopted by a family of weavers,...

The Silly Chicken (Urdu-English) $18.95

The Silly Chicken is a delightful and humorous tale about a chicken who learns to speak as we do - with surprising and unexpected consequences. The events that follow intrigue young children and, and at the same time, alert...

The Farmer's Wife (Urdu-English) $17.95

The story of The Farmer's Wife tells how a woman first loses an apple into a hole in the ground, and then attempts a series of efforts to get it back. Children enjoy learning to repeat the sequence from memory, and when the...

The Old Woman and the Eagle (Urdu-English) $18.95

In this amusing story, an old woman encounters an eagle for the first time. Perplexed by its unfamiliar appearance, she decides to change it to suit her own ideas of what a bird should look like. Her efforts mirror a common...

The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal (Urdu-English) $17.95

When a boy visits another village, he is amazed to find the townspeople terrified of something that - just because they have not seen it before - they mistake for a terrible, dangerous animal. With his own knowledge and by...

The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water (Urdu-English) $18.95

When the good-natured Share the Lion, King of all the animals, sees his reflection in a pool of water, he gasps at the fierce creature staring back at him and is too frightened to drink - until finally, he learns to overcome...

The Magic Horse (Urdu-English) $17.95

The Magic Horse is the story of two brothers, one skilled in the practical arts, and the other, Prince Tambal, considered by most people to be only a dreamer. Their father, the King, announces a competition to produce...

The Boy Without a Name (Urdu-English) $18.95

On the day a boy is born, his parents are visited by a wise man who says, "This is a very, very important boy, and I'm going to give him something marvelous one day, but I will have to give him his name first. So please...

The Man and the Fox (Urdu-English) $18.95

A man tricks a young fox into believing that he will give him a chicken. The fox is trapped, but through ingenuity and perseverance, he escapes. Reading this story inspires children to face challenges directly, and even to...