Never say a mean word again : a tale from Medieval Spain
(2014)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
PICTURE/STORIES/JULES,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Bloomington, Indiana : Wisdom Tales, [2014]
DESCRIPTION
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781937786205, 193778620X
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Winner of the 2015 Sydney Taylor Honor Book Award
When Samuel's father, the grand vizier, hears Hamza call Samuel names and tells his son to make sure Hamza never speaks an unkind word to him again, Samuel knows he must obey but has a hard time finding the right means to do so. Includes information about Jewish poet Samuel Ha-Nagid and the legend which inspired the story
Ages 5 and up
AD480L
Decoding demand: 78 (high) Semantic demand: 76 (high) Syntactic demand: 72 (high) Structure demand: 82 (very high)