How many donkeys?
Subtitle: an Arabic counting tale
By: retold by Margaret Read MacDonald and Nadia Jameel Taibah ; illustrations by Carol Liddiment.
Contributors: Taibah, Nadia Jameel.; Liddiment, Carol, ill.
Publisher: Albert Whitman
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Morton Grove, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807534243
Subjects: Arabs -- Folklore; Folklore -- Arab countries; Counting
Genres: Folklore
Description: When Jouha counts the ten donkeys carrying his dates to market, he repeatedly forgets to count the one he is riding on, causing him great  consternation. Includes numbers written out in Arabic and in English transliteration, as well as the numerals one through ten, and a note on the origins and other versions of the story.