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| | Amazon.com: Sindbad's Secret: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In Sindbad (1999) and Sindbad in the Land of Giants (2001, both Tundra), the intrepid seaman, armed with wit and bravery, survived terrifying monsters, endured lethal hardships, and returned to Baghdad with great wealth. |
 | | In order to fit Sindbad's adventures into a picture-book format, Zeman considerably shortened the leisurely retellings found in Andrew Lang's The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Dover, 1969) or Kate D. Wiggin and Nora A. Smith's volume, The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales (Scribner, 1993), and certainly modified the adult version by Richard Francis Burton. |
 | | Author/illustrator Ludmilla Zeman's, Sindbad's Secret is a brilliantly illustrated picture book based on the enduring Arabian classic "The Thousand and One Nights." Sinbad's perilous journey, a crisis, and the unexpected rewards of showing compassion to a baby elephant, make for engaging, entertaining reading. |
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