(Bilingual English-Hungarian edition) In this amusing story, an old woman encounters an eagle for the first time. Perplexed by its unfamiliar appearance, she decides to change it to suit her own ideas of what a bird should look like. Her efforts mirror a common pattern of human thought: altering the unfamiliar to make it acceptable. This tale is specially presented for children by Afghan author Idries Shah, who, for more than 30 years, collected stories from the Sufi tradition and adapted them to contemporary Western culture. Told since ancient times throughout Central Asia and the Middle East, such tales are used to help foster greater mental flexibility and insight in people of all ages. The Old Woman and the Eagle is wonderfully illustrated by Natasha Delmar, who was taught to paint by her father, the celebrated classic Chinese painter Ng Yi-Ching.

(Ketnyelvu angol-magyar kiadas) Ebben a szorakoztato meseben egy oereg neni eleteben eloszoer lat egy sast. Ismeretlen kuelsejetol megzavarodva ugy doent, hogy ata-lakitja a sast aszerint, hogy szerinte hogyan kellene a madaraknak kinezniuek. Erofeszitesei az emberi gondolkodas egy koezoes mintajat tuekroezik: az ismeretlent megvaltoztatni, hogy elfogadhato legyen. Ezt a meset kueloen gyermekeknek irta at Idries Shah, az afgan iro es tanito, aki toebb mint 30 evig gyujtoette a szufi hagyomany meseit, szajhagyomanybol es irott forrasokbol. Az ilyen meseket, amelyeket osidok ota meselnek Koezep-Azsiaban es a Koezel-Keleten, arra hasznaljak, hogy elosegitsek a nagyobb szellemi hajlekonysagot es a meglatasokat

mindenfele koru emberben.