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The Stranger's Farewell

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Availability:In StockContributor:Palwasha Bazgar Salam, Marie Lafrance (Illustrator)Series:Teaching StoriesAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2015-09-01Pages:40
Language:EnglishPublisher:Hoopoe BooksISBN-13:9781942698272ISBN-10:1942698275UPC:9781942698272Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fantasy & Magic, Visionary & MetaphysicalBook Topic:Country & EthnicSize:11.00 x 8.50 x 0.11 inchesWeight:0.3307Product ID:SCDYHVTRNB

This timeless story has entertained people all over the world for hundreds of years. When a stranger who has been traveling for many days stops at the home of a young couple to ask for a glass of water and a place to rest, they make him welcome and invite him to share their meal. As we all know, small actions sometimes have large consequences, and this one did. As the stranger leaves to go on his way, he says, "May the next thing you do last until you say 'Enough.'" These parting words reward the couple's generosity in an amazing way. News of their changed status travels fast and prompts a greedy merchant to seek out the stranger in the hope of gaining a similar reward for himself - but, of course, the result for him is very different. This tale can teach us - in a very accessible way - something about the nature of giving and receiving. Its setting - Afghanistan, where the story is widely known - introduces children to a culture and a people that may be unfamiliar to them. The tale is retold here for young people by the Afghan storyteller and teacher Palwasha Bazger Salam, and is beautifully illustrated by Marie Lafrance.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Hoopoe BooksISBN-13:9781942698272ISBN-10:1942698275UPC:9781942698272Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fantasy & Magic, Visionary & MetaphysicalBook Topic:Country & EthnicSize:11.00 x 8.50 x 0.11 inchesWeight:0.3307Product ID:SCDYHVTRNB
Salam, Palwasha Bazgar: - Palwasha Bazger Salam has degrees in Early Childhood Education from Kabul University and the University of Las Vegas where she currently lives and teaches. As Director of Teacher Education in Kabul for the Hoopoe Books for Afghanistan Program she helped develop Hoopoe's Afghan curriculum, translated our books into Dari and Pashto and trained our Afghan teacher training staff (www.booksforafghanistan.org). Ms. Salem comes from a family of storytellers and has continued this tradition in her retelling of two Hoopoe titles: The Wisdom of Ahmad Shah and The Stranger's Farewell.Lafrance, Marie: - Marie Lafrance was born in Quebec City. She studied graphic arts at a CEGEP in Vieux-Montréal and etching at Studio Graff. Marie has lived in San Francisco and New York, where she worked as a silk-screen printmaker for various galleries. She returned to Montreal to work as a freelance illustrator and has illustrated textbooks, magazines, books, and posters. Marie serves on the board of the Association des Illustrateurs et Illustratrices du Québec (AIIQ), where she is also a past-president. She has been nominated for many awards, including the prestigious Governor General's Award for her illustration of Richardo Keens-Douglas's La Diablesse and the Baby, which also received an Alcuin Society Design Award citation.
Publisher: Hoopoe Books

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