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(Bilingual English-French edition / Edition bilingue anglais-francais) Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another. Setting forth on a journey from her home in the West, she is shipwrecked and cast ashore alone near Alexandria, Egypt. Adopted by a local family of weavers, and beginning to prosper in her new life, she is captured and forced to work making masts for ships. While undertaking a journey to sell the masts, she finds herself shipwrecked once again - this time off the coast of China, where she finally realizes that what seemed to be disasters were really essential steps toward her eventual fulfillment. Full of wisdom and depth, and ideal as a bedtime story, Fatima’s tale helps children understand the need for perseverance to reach their goals. This traditional teaching story is well known in Greek folklore, but the present version is attributed to Sheikh Mohamed Jamaludin of Adrianople (modern-day Edirne in Turkey), who died in 1750. Fatima the Spinner and the Tent is filled with wonderful illustrations by Natasha Delmar, who was taught to paint by her father, the celebrated classic Chinese painter Ng Yi-Ching. Delmar captures Fatima’s adventures with a wealth of detail and color and, using Middle Eastern and Chinese design, transports readers to the exotic lands of Fatima’s travels in a way delightful to both young and old.
Fatima est une jeune femme dont la vie semble assaillie par une catastrophe apres l'autre. Partant pour un voyage depuis sa maison en Occident, elle fait naufrage et est jetee seule a terre pres d'Alexandrie, en Egypte. Adoptee par une famille locale de tisserands, et commencant a prosperer dans sa nouvelle vie, elle est capturee et forcee de travailler a la fabrication de mats pour navires. Alors qu'elle entreprend un voyage pour vendre les mats, elle se retrouve a nouveau naufragee - cette fois au large de la cote de chine, ou elle se rend finalement compte que ce qui semblait etre des catastrophes etaient des etapes vraiment essentielles vers son epanouissement eventuel. Plein de sagesse et de profondeur, et ideal comme histoire au coucher, le conte de Fatima aide les enfants a comprendre le besoin de perseverance pour atteindre leurs objectifs. Cette histoire-enseignement traditionnelle est bien connue dans le folklore grec, mais la version actuelle est attribuee au cheikh Mohamed Jamaludin d'Andrinople (aujourd'hui Edirne en Turquie), decede en 1750. Fatima la fileuse et la tente est remplie de magnifiques illustrations de Natasha Delmar, qui a appris a peindre par son pere, le celebre peintre chinois classique Ng Yi-Ching. Delmar capture les aventures de Fatima avec une richesse de details et de couleurs et, en utilisant un design moyen-oriental et chinois, transporte les lecteurs vers les terres exotiques des voyages de Fatima d'une maniere ravissante pour petits et grands.
