Cover of How Many Donkeys?: An Arabic Counting Tale

How Many Donkeys?: An Arabic Counting Tale

by Margaret Read MacDonald, Nadia Jameel Taibah · 2009

+ Want to read

Jouha is loading his donkeys with dates to sell at the market. How many donkeys are there? His son helps him count ten, but once the journey starts, things change. First there are ten donkeys, then there are nine! When Jouha stops to count again, the lost donkey is back. What's going on? Silly Jouha doesn't get it, but by the end of the story, wise readers will be counting correctly - and in Arabic! Margaret Read MacDonald and Nadia Jameel Taibah are the tellers of this funny tale from the Middle East. The sunny pictures were painted by Carol Liddiment.

Genre
folklorefolkloreMore like thisLess of thismyths and folkloremyths and folkloreMore like thisLess of this
Themes
diversitydiversityMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisArabArabMore like thisLess of thisMiddle EastMiddle EastMore like thisLess of this
Subject
sciencescienceMore like thisLess of this
Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare pricesHardcover

Liked How Many Donkeys?: An Arabic Counting Tale? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked How Many Donkeys?: An Arabic Counting Tale. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Humpty Dumpty Egg-Splodes Kevin O'Malley · 2002 Shares january, picture books, folklore
  2. William Shakespeare’s: Twelfth Night Bruce Coville · 2003 Shares picture books, folklore, january
  3. Chicken Little Laura Rader · 1998 Shares picture books, january, folklore
  4. A Spoon for Every Bite Joe Hayes · 1996 Shares folklore, picture books, january
See more recommendations →

“If you want more of the same (folklore about diversity), start with these.”

  1. The Three Princes: A Tale from the Middle East Eric A. Kimmel · 1994
  2. The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor Anonymous, John Yeoman · 1949
  3. Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous
  4. Aesop's Fables Aesop · 2003

“If it was the january that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Jacques and de Beanstalk Mike Artell · 2010
  2. The Red Shoes Gloria Fowler · 1969
  3. Tom Thumb Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 2011
  4. Rapunzel · 2010

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Goodnight Little One Margaret Wise Brown · 1961
  2. Donkey on the Doorstep · 1997
  3. My First Counting Book Lilian Moore · 1956
  4. The Small One Alex Walsh · 1995

Report a problem