The House of Wisdom
By: Florence Parry Heide & Judith Heide Gilliland ; illustrated by Mary GrandPré.
Contributors: Gilliland, Judith Heide.; GrandPré, Mary, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: DK Ink
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Books and reading -- Fiction.; Libraries -- Fiction.; Baghdad (Iraq) -- Fiction.
Description: Ishaq, the son of the chief translator to the Caliph of ancient Baghdad, travels the world in search of precious books and manuscripts and brings them back to the great library known as the House of Wisdom.