A thousand and one purple djellabas is a beautiful, often recognizable, story about going on holiday to family abroad. Peanut butter and chocolate spread go along, saffron and orange blossom oil go back.
Esmaa goes this summer vacation with her parents, brothers and sister on a journey, to family who lives in Morocco. All beautiful things and delicious herbs go back again. They get those things on the market. But it's so busy on the market! She loses her mother among all the women with purple djellabas. She meets a fortune teller, a water man, acrobats and a monkey. They help Esmaa and her mother to find each other again.
A thousand and one purple djellabas has been selected for the Top 10 picture book of 2022.
Age: from 3 years
Size: 28x25cm, 32 pages
Author: Lisa Boersen, Hasna Elbaamrani
