Pashto-English

Fatima the Spinner and the Tent (Pashto-English) $18.95

Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another. Setting forth on a journey from her home in the West, she is shipwrecked and cast ashore alone near Alexandria. Adopted by a family of weavers,...

The Boy Without a Name (Pashto-English) $18.95

On the day a boy is born, his parents are visited by a wise man who says, "This is a very, very important boy, and I'm going to give him something marvelous one day, but I will have to give him his name first. So please...

The Farmer's Wife (Pashto-English) $18.95

The story of The Farmer's Wife tells how a woman first loses an apple into a hole in the ground, and then attempts a series of efforts to get it back. Children enjoy learning to repeat the sequence from memory, and when the...

The Man with Bad Manners (Pashto-English) $20.95

This is the story of a very badly behaved man, how a young boy invents a plan to change his behavior, and, with the help of the other villagers, succeeds. Children, of course, love the idea of an adult behaving badly. At the...

The Old Woman and the Eagle (Pashto-English) $18.95

In this amusing story, an old woman encounters an eagle for the first time. Perplexed by its unfamiliar appearance, she decides to change it to suit her own ideas of what a bird should look like. Her efforts mirror a common...