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Aliens love underpants

Illustrations and rhyming text reveal the true reason aliens visit Earth is that they deem underpants so much fun to play with.

I'll build you a bookcase =

[Sa-abni? laka maktabah]
Illustrations and rhyming text portray a loved one who promises to build a home library to hold treasures that grow and change along with their special child.

Arabic love poetry from the desert

Contains sixty-two Arabic love poems drawn from seventh-century poet Qays b. al-Mulawwah. Each poem includes the Arabic script and an English translation on the facing page. The poems reflect the love Qays had for his cousin, Leyla al-Amiriya, and are representative of platonic or virginal love poems during the Ummayad era (661?750).

The travels of Ibn Battuta

a guided Arabic reader
Offers a guided reading of the work of Sheikh Ibn Battuta using twenty interactive lessons on style and grammar along with historical and cultural background and critical evaluation. The work itself chronicles the travels of Ibn Battuta to East Africa, Byzantium, Iraq, Russia, India, Ceylon, and China during the fourteenth century. Describes Muslim maritime activities, foreign architecture, and the agricultural activities of various cultures as well as other sights from his travels.

Arabic proverbs and wise sayings

Presents a collection of over 700 proverbs from the Arab world and culture, written in both Arabic and English, along with English equivalents where applicable.

[Naha?r riya?di? fi? al-adgha?l] =

Sports day in the jungle
A sloth finds a sport he is good at.

Why did you leave the horse alone?

A collection of poetry that represents myth and history of the pain and injustice of a displaced people; and is written in both English and Arabic.

[Mudhakkirat ?l? al-sirr?yah] =

Ellie's secret diary
2010
Illustrations and simple text written in both English and Arabic that describes how a little girl, Ellie, is able to cope with bullying.

The children of Lir

A retelling of the Celtic legend in which a king's children are changed into swans by their evil stepmother and can only be changed back when twin mountain peaks, the Man from the North and the Woman from the South, are joined. Presented in Arabic and English.

Arabic poems

2014
Bilingual anthology of classical and modern Arabic poems, from the sixth century to the twenty-first century, with English and Arabic text on facing pages.

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