Sjamsi and Ali Baba in Town

by Ghazi Abdel-Qadir

Shopping in town with his mother for the first time, Sjamsi enjoys the sights of the marketplace, but then his rooster Ali Baba gets loose and creates a disturbance.

26 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Ghazi Abdel-Qadir was born in the seminal year 1948 near Nazareth, in Palestine. He went to school first in Jordan, but later studied in Germany. After spending time working as a translator and lecturer, Abdel-Qadir devoted himself to writing novels, and is celebrated as an author of works for children and young adults, having won a number of literary prizes.

His first book, Abdallah und ich, was published in 1991, and he’s pulished more than a dozen more. One of his most well-known is Die sprechenden Steine, or The Talking Stones.