(Queen Scheherazade by Sophie Anderson)
I really enjoyed the first half of this storybook! I love this writing style and it is something that I am considering for a theme for my portfolio if I decide to choose to do it. The first half of this reading tells a story about a Sultan who is a king and he is happily married, but then his wife deceives him and he kills her. Now the Sultan seemingly has serious trust issues and marries a new wife everyday, spends a night with her and than has her killed the next morning. This continues on until the grand-vizers daughter Scheherazade comes up with a plan to keep the Sultan from killing her. The grand-vizer is opposed of this because he does not want to kill his own daughter if her plan does not work. Although he eventually lets her marry the Sultan with hopes that he is not ordered to kill her the next day. When Sultan meets Scheherazade he feels she is the most beautiful woman he has every married. He also sees that she is sad and asks her what is wrong. Scheherazade then asked Sultan to let her sister sleep with them before she is to die, and he allows it. While the three of them are asleep, Scheherazade sister wakes her to tell her a story. The Sultan also wants to hear the story. Scheherazade then starts to tell a story about a genie and merchant. In this story the genies believes that the merchant has killed his son, and plans to kill the merchant. The merchant is given one year with his family and then he has to return to the genie. On this day, the merchant meets three old men, one with a hind and another one with two dogs. When the genie is getting ready to kill the merchant, the old man with the hind makes a deal with the genie that if his story is worthwhile then he will not kill the merchant. So then the old man and the hind begins to tell his story. But Scheherazade then tells Sultan and her sister that they have to wait until the next day to hear the story, and Scheherazade is spared and not killed to the relief of the grand-vizer. This theme continues on with a story happening within a story.
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