The Farmer's Wife - Hardcover

Shah, Idries

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1883536073 ISBN 13: 9781883536077

Publisher: Ishk Book Service, 1998

Synopsis

A cumulative Sufi teaching tale of a farmer's wife who is trying to retrieve an apple from a hole in the ground.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Beautifully illustrated in stunning color, this award-winning series of large-format children's books by Idries Shah presents tales from a rich tradition of storytelling. All books were well reviewed and one received a National Parenting Publications Honors Award.

For thousands of years all over the Middle East and Central Asia children have been entertained and taught by these stories and have continued to tell them in adult life. Until his death in 1996, Shah collected hundreds of such stories and adapted them to contemporary Western culture. His adult books continue to attract millions of readers from all over the world.

Sufi tradition affirms that there is a continuum of the children's story, the entertainment story, and the teaching story. A story can help young children deal with difficult situations and give them something to hold on to. Adults can at the same time understand it on a more spiritual level. Through repeated readings of this rich body of oral and written material both children and adults can now learn to develop the capacity to be more flexible, as well as get fresh insights into many things about themselves and about life.

From the Inside Flap:

For more than 30 years Idries Shah's collections of teaching stories and narratives from the Sufi tradition have captivated the hearts and minds of people from all walks of life. Shah selected the majority of these tales from oral sources. They are repeated in homes, courts and caravanserais throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. The Farmer's Wife and how she retrieves an apple from a hole in the ground is one of the many Sufi Tales for children. For over a thousand years it has entertained young people who join in the chant of this cumulative tale and, at the same time, learn its valuable lessons about the nature of problem solving and discovery.

Rose Mary Santiago is a graduate of the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ishk Book Service
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1883536073
• ISBN 13: 9781883536077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Santiago Rose Mary