One thousand and one arabian nights, paperback/geraldine mccaughrean

King Shahryar kills a new wife every night, because he is afraid she will stop loving him.

But his new bride Shahrazad has a clever plan to save herself.

Her nightly stories--of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, and many other heroes and villains--are so engrossing that King Shahryar has to postpone her execution again and again.

This illustrated edition brings together all the Arabian Nights tales in an original retelling by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean.

(paperback reissue of ISBN 0-19-274500-X).