Wiil Waal - Kathleen Moriarty

A Somali Folk Tale
Illustrator: Amin Amir
Somali Translation - Jamal Adam
Published: 2007
Rating: 3.5
398.2 M824W
Endpapers: Blue

This is one of a few produced by the Somali Bilingual Book Project of the Minnesota Humanities Center (www.minnesotahumanities.org) . You can go there to download free online resources for use in an educational setting.

Edge of page illustrations, text usually in the sky - left page English, right page Somali.

DO YOU THINK THIS TALE IS TRUE?
Ma Waxay kula tahay in sheeko xariiradaani run tahay?

Pretty cool!

This is the story of how Sultan Wiil Waal was looking for a wise man to be his match -- and discovered that the only one to figure out his riddle was a clever young woman. The riddle: "Bring me the part of one of your sheep that symbolizes what can divide people or unite them as one."

Note: GULLET needs to be understood fully befoe reading aloud.