Outside the King's palace stands an enormous tree, its top hidden by clouds. Rosa's stepmother and stepsister call Rosa a monkey because she can climb anything. So when the King proclaims that whoever brings down some seeds from the tree-top shall marry his son, Rosa decides to make her step-family laugh on the other side of their faces...

The folk tales of Iraq teem with otherworldly creatures, magic and earthy humour. This work gathers together the very best Iraqi stories during the author's time in the Middle East - stories ranging from thieving porcupines to the tale of the chaos caused by a handsome stranger who knocks at a house inside which lurks a marriageable daughter.

During his twenty years as a merchant adventurer, Sindbad encounters a Rookh's egg, a huge valley of diamonds, streams of amber, a terrifying sea-monster, an ogre's feast, the Cave of the Dead, and the Old Man of the Sea. This is a collection of Sindbad stories.

When a grumpy old bachelor loses his last lunchtime bean down a well, he starts to yell. To stop the noise, the Imp down the well gives him a pot which conjures up food. But when a jealous old lady steals the pot, even stranger things happen! This is a lively retelling of a traditional Jewish Moroccan tale.

Rashid, who is Muslim, Samuel who is Jewish and Miguel who is Christian work in the mosque gardens, where they develop a deep sense of the building's beauty and significance. Years later, when the Christian king threatens to demolish the Islamic Mezquita and build a church in its place, they reunite to hatch a plan to save the great mosque...

In this Jewish folktale from Morocco, a bachelor receives a magic pot from an imp, but it is stolen by an old woman.

In a Jewish folktale from Morocco, a grumpy old bachelor receives a magic pot from an imp, but it is stolen by an old woman, and when the two eventually butt heads over the pot, she turns out to be more of a match for him than he had ever bargained for.