The Spoiled Boy with the Terribly Dry Throat / O Menino Malcriado com a Garganta Terrivelmente Seca: Bilingual English-Portuguese Edition / edição bilíngue em inglês-português

by Idries Shah, Silvara Kossem (Illustrator)

Overview

(Bilingual English-Portuguese edition) When a little boy wakes up with a dry throat, those around him run about trying to work out what caused the condition. One by one, servants, doctors, and medical students try remedies that only complicate the situation and make the condition worse, ignoring what readers will see as the obvious solution. This is one of a series of illustrated books for the young written by the Afghan philosopher and educator Idries Shah, whose collections of narratives and teaching stories have captivated the hearts and minds of people from all walks of life. It belongs to a rich storytelling tradition from Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Middle East that is more than 1,000 years old. Teaching stories are designed specifically to foster thinking skills and perception. They suggest in their structure and in the movement of their characters ways of looking at difficulties that can help solve them. This story illustrates in a very humorous way just how foolish people can be when they fail to consider a situation before springing into action.

(edição bilíngue em inglês-português) Quando um garotinho acorda com a garganta seca, aqueles ao seu redor correm tentando descobrir o que causou a condição. Um por um, empregados domésticos, médicos e estudantes de medicina tentam remédios que só complicam a situação e pioram a condição, ignorando o que os leitores verão como a solução óbvia. Este é um de uma série de livros ilustrados para jovens escrito pelo filósofo e educador afegão Idries Shah, cujas coleções de narrativas e histórias de ensinamento têm cativado os corações e mentes de pessoas de todas as esferas da vida. Ele pertence à rica tradição de contar histórias do Afeganistão, Ásia Central e Oriente Médio, que tem mais de 1000 anos. Esta história ilustra de uma forma muito bem-humorada o quão tolas as pessoas podem ser quando não consideram uma situação antes de entrarem em ação.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781959393580
Publisher:	I S H K
Publication date:	01/03/2024
Series:	Teaching Stories
Pages:	42
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.11(d)
Age Range:	6 - 10 Years

About the Author

Idries Shah spent much of his life collecting and publishing Sufi classical narratives and teaching stories from oral and written sources in the Middle East and Central Asia. The tales he retold especially for children are published by Hoopoe Books in beautifully illustrated editions and have been widely commended - by Western educators and psychologists, the U.S. Library of Congress, National Public Radio and other media - for their unique ability to foster social-emotional development, thinking skills and perception in children and adults alike. Told for centuries, these stories express universal themes from the cultures that produced them, showing how much we have in common and can learn from each other. As noted by reviewers, such stories are more than just entertaining; familiarity with them provokes flexibility of thought, since each one contains levels of meaning that unfold in accordance with an individual's experience and understanding.