Rumi Stories for Young Adults from the Mathnawi (Islamic Classics for Young Adults)

Got this as a present for my nine year old and she loves it, all stories are really good, would recommend it highly.

Already owning translations of various works covered in this series (Islamic Classics for Young Adults), I bought a couple of its titles, that on Jalal al-Din Rumi and on Farid al-Din Attar, in the hope that it would "do what it says on the tin," allowing me to read from them to groups of Muslim young adults, many with low-ability literacy, and inspire them to a little bit higher in the sky to pluck the fruits of Islamic spirituality. While some of my personal favourites are absent, the stories inside are nonetheless well chosen and the paraphrase not too long, the text is printed in a larger-than-average font for ease of access, and the line-drawn illustrations that act as frontispieces to each chapter are refreshing. What lets the books in the series down is the high number of careless orthographic mistakes, which may cause even the proficient reader to stumble; that and the insufficiently rare infelicitous turn of phrase. A great idea, much to be commended, but imperfectly executed, which is sad given the lofty literary status of the originals. Rumi: Stories for Young Adults from the Mathnawi (Islamic Classics for Young Adults)Rumi: Stories for Young Adults from the Mathnawi (Islamic Classics for Young Adults)