Sindbad's Secret
  • Published: 15 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781770492653
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $22.99
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Sindbad's Secret

From the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights

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The legend of Sindbad is retold here, for young children aged 4 to 8. Brilliantly illustrated with Ludmila Zeman's complex and dynamic art, these books will appeal, as her GILGAMESH titles do, to the general trade and to schools and libraries. This will be the first paperback edition.

Sindbad the Sailor has escaped death many times and is planning to live the rest of his life on dry land. But the sea beckons, and he sets out for one final adventure. As he sails from a beautiful far-off land where people drink scented tea, a storm destroys the ship. Sindbad finds refuge on an island, but it holds little safety for him. Ivory traders make him their slave. It seems that he will live out his days in servitude. But the power of love, and his compassion for a baby elephant, give him the strength he needs for survival. His voyage offers him the answer to life’s greatest secret, and finally he can rest.

Ludmila Zeman has retold these beloved adventures from the Thousand and One Nights in her gorgeous trilogy, Sindbad, Sindbad in the Land of the Giants, and Sindbad’s Secret, incorporating design details and maps that place the stories into their historical context
  • Published: 15 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781770492653
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Ludmila Zeman

Accomplished filmmaker, author, and illustrator Ludmila Zeman was born in the Czech Republic. She is the daughter of well-known Czech film director Karel Zeman. Ludmila worked on major motion pictures early in her career, and she went on to create her own short animated films including the award-winning Lord of the Sky for the National Film Board of Canada. Besides films, Ludmila’s storytelling talent and unique design has been expressed in countless children’s picture books. She’s received numerous awards as the author and illustrator of the Gilgamesh and Sindbad trilogies and The First Red Maple Leaf, all published by Tundra Books. In 1995, Ludmila received a Governor General’s Award for Illustration for her book, The Last Quest of Gilgamesh. Ludmila now lives in Montreal, Quebec. For more information about Ludmila Zeman, please visit her website at www.ludmilazeman.com.

Also by Ludmila Zeman

The Revenge of Ishtar
Gilgamesh the King
Sindbad et les geants
Le Roi Gilgamesh
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Praise for Sindbad's Secret

"Readers will delight at the hyperbole the author employs as she eloquently retells the adventures of Sinbad in this classic sailing story... Vivid illustrations with traditional Persian decorative carpet borders will transport the reader into an ancient world full of mystery and wonder."
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