Oinkink / Gágég: Bilingual English-Hungarian Edition / Kétnyelvű angol-magyar kiadás

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Idries Shah Laetitia Bermejo

Oinkink / Gágég

Bilingual English-Hungarian Edition / Kétnyelvű angol-magyar kiadás

Idries Shah, Laetitia Bermejo

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English

Hoopoe Books
11 December 2023

Traditional stories (Children's&YA); Humorous stories (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues; Languages & ESL; Hungarian - Languages

Series: Teaching Stories

"(Bilingual English-Hungarian edition) In this very humorous tale, a man greedily hopes to have the skills and senses of a different animal but is so impatient to have his wish granted that he finds himself limiting his abilities, rather than enhancing them. This is one of a series of illustrated books for the young written by the Afghan philosopher and educator Idries Shah, whose collections of narratives and teaching stories have captivated the hearts and minds of people from all walks of life. It belongs to a rich storytelling tradition from Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Middle East that is more than 1,000 years old. These stories are not only entertaining; they are designed specifically to foster thinking skills and perception. They suggest, in their structure and in the movement of their characters, ways of looking at difficulties that can help solve them. Among other things, this simple story shows children how a blind impulse to ""win,"" without considering the consequences, can end up having the opposite effect.

(Kétnyelvű angol-magyar kiadás) Humoros történetünk hőse egy fösvény ember, aki szeretné bizonyos állatok képességeit és érzékeit megszerezni, de vak vágyakozásában saját képességeinek korlátozójává, nem pedig kiteljesítőjévé válik. Könyvünk része egy illusztrált, gyermekeknek szánt sorozatnak, melyet az afgán filozófus és tanító, Idries Shah írt, kinek történetei, tanításai világszerte rabul ejtették az olvasók szívét és lelkét. A történetmesélés Afganisztán, Közép-Ázsia és a Közép-Kelet több mint ezeréves oktató célú hagyománya. Történeteink célja a gondolkodási és szövegértési képességek elősegítése. Szerkezetük és hőseik viselkedése megtanít a problémás helyzetek elemzésére és az azokból való kijutásra. Jelen mesénk jó példa arra, hogy a ""győzelem"" utáni vak vágyakozás, ha nem párosul az esetleges következmények mérlegelésével könnyen eredményezheti a kívántak ellenkezőjét."

By: Idries Shah
Illustrated by: Laetitia Bermejo
Imprint: Hoopoe Books
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 279mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9781960884060
ISBN 10: 1960884069
Series: Teaching Stories
Pages: 42
Publication Date: 11 December 2023
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Idries Shah spent much of his life collecting and publishing Sufi classical narratives and teaching stories from oral and written sources in the Middle East and Central Asia. The tales he retold especially for children are published by Hoopoe Books in beautifully illustrated editions and have been widely commended - by Western educators and psychologists, the U.S. Library of Congress, National Public Radio and other media - for their unique ability to foster social-emotional development, thinking skills and perception in children and adults alike. Told for centuries, these stories express universal themes from the cultures that produced them, showing how much we have in common and can learn from each other. As noted by reviewers, such stories are more than just entertaining; familiarity with them provokes flexibility of thought, since each one contains levels of meaning that unfold in accordance with an individual's experience and understanding.

Reviews for Oinkink / Gágég: Bilingual English-Hungarian Edition / Kétnyelvű angol-magyar kiadás

"2022 ""Hot off the Press"" Selection - Children's Book Council (U.S.) ""Two new ... bilingual picture book treasures for young readers. ... Both of these simply outstanding bilingual picture books are especially and unreservedly recommended for family, daycare center, preschool, elementary school, and community library collections for children ages 3-8."" - Children's Bookwatch (U.S.) [in a dual review of two books by Idries Shah: Oinkink and The Bird's Relative] ""These enchanting stories Shah has collected have a richness and depth not often encountered in children's literature, and their effect on minds young and old can be almost magical."" - Multicultural Perspectives: An Official Journal of the National Association for Multicultural Education (U.S.) ""Shah's versatile and multilayered tales provoke fresh insight and more flexible thought in children."" - Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature ""Our experiences show that, while reading Idries Shah's stories can help children with reading and writing, the stories can also help them transcend fixed patterns of emotion and behaviour which may be getting in the way of learning and emotional well-being too. ... By flying under the radar of emotion and analytical thinking, the patterns contained within a story can shift children's perspective, to let them 'own' the meaning for themselves."" - Ezra Hewing, Head of Education at the mental-health charity Suffolk Mind in Suffolk, U.K.; and Kashfi Khan, who teaches English as an additional language at Hounslow Town Primary School in London ""These teaching stories can be experienced on many levels. A child may simply enjoy hearing them; an adult may analyze them in a more sophisticated way. Both may eventually benefit from the lessons within."" - ""All Things Considered,"" National Public Radio (U.S.) ""They [teaching stories] suggest ways of looking at difficulties that can help children solve problems calmly while, at the same time, giving them fresh perspectives on these difficulties that help them develop their cognitive abilities"" - psychologist Robert Ornstein, Ph.D., in his lecture ""Teaching Stories and the Brain"" given at the U.S. Library of Congress ""Through repeated readings, these stories provoke fresh insight and more flexible thought in children. Beautifully illustrated."" - NEA Today: The Magazine of the National Education Association (U.S.) ""These stories ... are not moralistic fables or parables, which aim to indoctrinate, nor are they written only to amuse. Rather, they are carefully designed to show effective ways of defining and responding to common life experiences."" - Denise Nessel, Ph.D., Senior Consultant with the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education (U.S.), writing in Library Media Connection: The Professional Magazine for School Library Media Specialists (U.S.) ""In this tradition, the line between stories for children and those for adults is not as clear as it seems to be in Western cultures, and the lessons are important for all generations."" - School Library Journal (U.S.) ""... they not only entertain, but can be understood on many different levels and provide a form of 'nourishment for the brain' that can help develop thinking abilities and perceptions."" - Multicultural Perspectives: An Official Journal of the National Association for Multicultural Education (U.S.)"