Tal: His Marvelous Adventures with Noom-Zor-Noom

Tal, the boy with golden hair, lived happily in Martoona. He might well have gone on living there forever, had not something strange happened.

An old man came to town, leading a white donkey. "I'm Noom-Zor-Noom, and I come from the kingdom of Troom," the man said. He invited Tal to join him on a trip to see amazing things in strange lands. The donkey, whose name was Millitinkle, spoke up, urging Tal to say yes.

Never before had Tal heard a donkey speak, but her words seemed true, and the man ...