Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another. - Ng Yi-Ching ž. . ( ) . . . . . . .
Using Middle Eastern and Chinese design, Delmar transports readers into the exotic worlds of Fatima\'s travels, in a way delightful to both young and old.
Taught to paint by her father, the celebrated classic Chinese painter Ng Yi-Ching, she captures Fatima\'s adventures with a wealth of detail and color.
This book is filled with wonderful illustrations by Natasha Delmar.
This Teaching-Story is well known in Greek folklore, but this version is attributed to the Sheikh Mohamed Jamaludin of Adrianople (modern-day Edirne in Turkey) who died in 1750.
A story of wisdom and depth, ideal as a bedtime story, it helps children understand the need for perseverance to reach their goals.
It is only here that Fatima finally realizes that what seemed to be disasters were really essential steps towards realizing her eventual fulfillment.
Undertaking a journey to sell the masts, her ship is wrecked off the coast of China.
Adopted by a family of weavers, and beginning to prosper in her new life, she is captured and made to work making masts.
Setting forth on a journey from her home in the West, she is shipwrecked and cast ashore alone near Alexandria.
Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another
