Goha The Wise Fool
by Denys Johnson-Davies
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A collection of fourteen tales about the folk hero Nasreddin Hoca, also known as Goha, a man with a reputation for being able to answer difficult questions in a clever way.Tags
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I believe this book has the right message but is a little too long to be a kid’s book. It does teach the lesson of don’t judge a book by its cover. It allows them to see that the way they may treat certain people isn’t so nice. I read this to my kids at work, and they kept screaming that’s not nice.
This book could be used in a fourth-grade classroom as an interactive read aloud. Students of this age would enjoy the funny stories and clever messages of Goha. As an interactive read aloud you could pick out your favorites and discuss them. Students like hearing stories so it would be best suited if read to them, they could also practice retelling after hearing a story.
One of Mazin's favorite books at home, suggested by his mom. :-)
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Denys Johnson-Davies was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on June 21, 1922. He received a degree in Arabic from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. During World War II, he joined the Arabic section of the BBC. After the war, he moved to Cairo and taught translation at the British Institute. He translated more than 30 Arabic novels, show more short-story collections, and anthologies including Modern Arabic Short Stories, The Time and the Place and Other Stories, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, Arabian Nights and Days, Echoes of an Autobiography, Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World, and Homecoming: 60 Years of Egyptian Short Stories. He also wrote books for children, a memoir entitled Memories in Translation: A Life Between the Lines of Arabic Literature, and a collection of his own writing entitled Fate of a Prisoner and Other Stories. He died on May 22, 2017 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- The adventures of Goha, the Wise Fool
- Alternate titles
- Nasreddin Hoca (Anecdotes) (Anecdotes)
- Original publication date
- 2005
- People/Characters
- Goha; Mulla Nasrudin
- Dedication
- For Lisa and Luke -- DJD
To my father Hag Fattouh --HF - Publisher's editor
- Gauch, Patricia Lee
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 1
- ASINs
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