The Spoiled Boy with the Terribly Dry Throat / Boğazı Çok Fena Kuruyan Şımarık Oğlan: Bilingual English-Turkish Edition / &# (Teaching Stories)

(Bilingual English-Turkish edition) When a little boy wakes up with a dry throat, those around him run about trying to work out what caused the condition. One by one, servants, doctors, and medical students try remedies that only complicate the situation and make the condition worse, ignoring what readers will see as the obvious solution. This is one of a series of illustrated books for the young written by the Afghan philosopher and educator Idries Shah, whose collections of narratives and teaching stories have captivated the hearts and minds of people from all walks of life. It belongs to a rich storytelling tradition from Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Middle East that is more than 1,000 years old. Teaching stories are designed specifically to foster thinking skills and perception. They suggest in their structure and in the movement of their characters ways of looking at difficulties that can help solve them. This story illustrates in a very humorous way just how foolish people can be when they fail to consider a situation before springing into action.

(İngilizce-Türkçe İki Dilli Baskı) Küçük bir oğlan boğazı kurumuş halde uyandığında, etrafındaki herkes bu duruma neyin sebep olduğunu anlamak üzere koşuşturmaya başlar. Hizmetçiler, doktorlar ve tıp öğrencileri, okuyucunun bariz çözüm olarak gördüğü çözümü göz ardı ederek, teker teker farklı çareler denerler ancak bu denemeler durumu daha karmaşık, hastalığı da daha kötü hale getirmekten başka bir işe yaramaz. Elinizde tuttuğunuz bu kitap, öykü toplamaları ve öğretici hikâyeleri ile her yaştan okuyucunun kalbini ve zihnini fetheden Afgan filozof ve eğitimci İdris Şah'ın resimli kitap serilerinden birine ait ve Afganistan, Orta Asya ve Orta Doğu'da 1000 yıldan uzun süredir devam eden zengin hikâye anlatma geleneğinin bir parçası. Bu hikâye insanların bir durum karşısında harekete geçmeden önce yeterince düşünmezlerse nasıl ahmak durumuna düşebileceklerini gösteriyor.

Author: Idries Shah
Publisher: Hoopoe Books
Published: 12/12/2023
Pages: 42
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.50h x 11.00w x 0.11d
ISBN: 9781959393559

About the Author
Shah, Idries: - "Idries Shah spent much of his life collecting and publishing Sufi classical narratives and teaching stories from oral and written sources in the Middle East and Central Asia. The tales he retold especially for children are published by Hoopoe Books in beautifully illustrated editions and have been widely commended - by Western educators and psychologists, the U.S. Library of Congress, National Public Radio and other media - for their unique ability to foster social-emotional development, thinking skills and perception in children and adults alike. Told for centuries, these stories express universal themes from the cultures that produced them, showing how much we have in common and can learn from each other. As noted by reviewers, such stories are more than just entertaining; familiarity with them provokes flexibility of thought, since each one contains levels of meaning that unfold in accordance with an individual's experience and understanding."