Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Award Classic Fairy Tale series ("An Award Classic Fairy Tale"

by Kay Brown (Adapted By), Gerry Embleton (Illustrator), Antoine Galland (Original Translator)

A poor woodcutter discovers the secret hiding place where a band of robbers keeps their stolen riches.

24 pages, Hardcover

First published May 5, 2012

Reviews

[Maria]

Themes of killing and stealing. Both conveyed as “acceptable”.

[Vika · Rating 2 out of 5]

I actually found this story pretty disturbing, because the 'slave girl' killed 40! people and was completely peaceful about it.....
The message it sends to the kids... "If the person is bad, you can kill them, don't worry about it" :/

[Lindsay · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a great story, very entertaining. No wonder the sheikh didn't have Scheherazade executed. Ali Baba is an epic dumbass, and I was pretty glad his dickhead brother-in-law got offed. The slave deserved a better reward than just being married off to Ali Baba's son, although, since she kept saving his ass, keeping her around was the smartest thing Ali Baba did in the whole story.

[Anita · Rating 5 out of 5]

good entertainment, not too much thinking involved