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    How Many Donkeys?: An Arabic Counting Tale
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    How Many Donkeys?: An Arabic Counting Tale

    By Margaret Read MacDonald, Nadia Jameel Taibah and Carol Liddiment

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    Jouha is loading his donkeys with dates to sell at the market. How many donkeys are there? His son helps him count ten, but once the journey starts, things change. First there are ten donkeys, then there are nine! When Jouha stops to count again, the lost donkey is back. What's going on? Silly Jouha doesn't get it, but by the end of the story, wise readers will be counting correctly-and in Arabic!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlbert Whitman & Company
    Release dateSep 1, 2009
    ISBN9780807592809
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    How Many Donkeys?: An Arabic Counting Tale
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    Margaret Read MacDonald

    Margaret Read MacDonald is a children's librarian turned storyteller who travels the world sharing tales. Her many picture book retellings include The Boy from the Dragon Palace, Little Rooster’s Diamond Button, and Mabela the Clever. When not traveling, she lives near Seattle, Washington.

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    • 3/5
      I had mixed feelings about this book because while I loved the illustrations and the patterned style of the language I had a difficult time reading the names of each donkey. The point of view was told by first person which was appropriate for the book. The big idea of this story was that he kept losing a donkey until he figured out that if he rides a donkey he will loose a donkey so its better to walk along side the donkeys.
    • 4/5
      Jouha is attempting to take his ten donkeys to the market. But there is one problem, he keeps losing and finding his donkey, but then loses it again! The story, along the way of the mayhem, is teaching us some arabic, specifically, how to count. There is humor in this processes, but also the repetition helps reinforce the knowledge of the reader beinging to learn a new language.