The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor

by Said, Rashin Kheiriyeh (Illustrator)

Overview

From Iranian-American artist Rashin Kheiriyeh comes an illustrated edition of the famous story from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights!

The Seven Voyages of Sinbad, from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights, have been thrilling readers and listeners for generations. Sinbad, the merchant adventurer, encounters treasure, a sea-monster, the Old Man of the Sea, and more in this captivating and stunningly illustrated retelling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780735842403
Publisher:	NorthSouth Books
Publication date:	12/01/2015
Edition description:	Translatio
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 10.40(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	AD950L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Rashin Kheiriyeh is a multi-award-winning author-illustrator, animator, and painter who has more than ninety children’s books to her credit. Her books have been published in at least twelve countries and she was nominated for the 2023 & 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to children's literature. She is also the recipient of a Sendak Fellowship Award, a 2009 New Horizon Award (Bologna Ragazzi), and is a six-time winner of the Bologna Book Fair Illustration competition. Rashin Kheiriyeh is the character artist of the most popular animation series on national television in Iran called “Shekarestan” (“Sugarland”). She now lives in Washington, DC.

SAID, who publishes only under his first name for security reasons, was born in Tehran in 1947 and has lived in Munich since 1965. He is the author of numerous books and has received many awards, including the Premio Letterario Internazionale "Jean Monnet

Editorial Reviews

"...readers have the opportunity to experience a modern version that originated close to Sinbad’s homeland."— Francisca Goldsmith, Booklist

From the Publisher

2015-09-16
Bright-eyed beneath a huge, floppy turban, an ever optimistic merchant sets out again and again on rocky roads to riches in this lighthearted version of the classic Arabian Nights adventures, from two Iranian expats. Forgetting with comical regularity the disasters of each previous voyage, Sinbad repeatedly sets out from Basra with companies of fellow merchants on sea voyages. These invariably end in shipwreck and go on, through encounters with rocs, giant fish, cannibals, and such hazardous customs as the practice of burying living husbands with their dead wives, to conclude in miraculous restorations of luck and fortune. Though he relegates mention of Scheherazade to an introduction, Said links his first-person renditions with the secondary frame story common in traditional versions. Similarly, though the figures in her vignettes and wide-bordered full-page illustrations sport cartoonishly exaggerated garb and expressions, Rashin incorporates simplified but evocative Persian and other Middle Eastern stylistic motifs. Some pictures part company in major ways with the narrative, though, and less-than-proficient readers may find Said's formal prose—"There is no protection and no power besides that of God the Almighty! But as often as God is merciful to me and frees me from one perilous situation, I plunge myself into another"—a bit of a slog. Ageless yarn-spinning, if not quite so laced with thrilling melodrama as John Yeoman and Quentin Blake's rendition (1997). (Folk tales. 10-13)

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