How Many Donkeys?
An Arabic Counting Tale

Author: Margaret Read MacDonald
Illustrator: Nadiah Jameel Taibah

Jouha counts ten donkeys, but riding along he realizes that now he has only nine! Listeners get to help count…in Arabic…each time Jouha mounts and dismounts to... "Count again, Jouha!" Retelling of a Saudi folktale from co-author Nadiah Taibah’s aunt Salha

Don’t worry about pronunciation of the Arabic numbers. Your guesstimate will automatically be close. But if you are concerned you can CLICK HERE to hear Nadiah pronounce the Arabic numbers.

Editions
Type	Year	Publisher	Price	Length	ISBN
Hardcover	2009	Albert Whitman	$16.99	32 pages	978-0807534243

Additional Information and Resources

Quotes "I can't wait to share this book with my class! For the first time, my Arabic-speaking students will be the experts as they help us to count to 10 in Arabic, moving across the page from right to left. "  ...A Year of Reading, Sept. 17, 2009