To understand a people, acquaint yourself with their proverbs' runs an Arab adage, and here are the books that do just that. The popular Apricots Tomorrow, a selection of sayings from the Gulf region, is joined by sister titles The Son of a Duck is a Floater and the newest book in the series, Unload your own Donkey, which draws on sayings from the Maghreb and Levant. Pairing age-old Arabic sayings with English equivalents, the proverbs highlight the uncanny similarity of inherited wisdom in the East and West.

The Son of a Duck is a Floater (English and Arabic Edition)

Humor & Entertainment

Arnander, Primrose

SKIPWITH, Ashkain

LAMB, Kathryn

Humor

Stacey International

Book by Tooley, M.J., Arnander, Primrose

Gertrude Jekyll: Essays on the life of a working amateur

Michaelmas Bks.

To understand a people, acquaint yourself with their proverbs' runs an Arab adage, and here are the books that help you do just that. The popular Apricots Tomorrow, a selection of sayings from the Gulf region, is joined by sister titles The Son of a Duck is a Floater and the newest book in the series, Unload your own Donkey, which draws on sayings from the Maghreb and Levant. Paralleling age-old Arabic sayings with English equivalents, the proverbs highlight the uncanny similarity of inherited wisdom in both East and West.

Unload Your Own Donkey (English and Arabic Edition)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Continuing the popular series of proverbs from around the world, each paired with an English equivalent, Don't Toss Granny sheds amusing and often intriguing light on the perhaps justly notorious rivalry between the French and the English. But more than this, Don't Toss Granny highlights as many similarities between the cultures. Witness 'Porter l'eau

Don't Toss Granny in the Begonias

GILLY, Marie-Helene Claudel

The English may say, ‘Where there’s a will there’s a way,’ and the Japanese, ‘A concentrated mind pierces even a rock’, but the meaning is clearly the same; ‘Too many boatmen sail the boat up the hill’ may be the same as the English, ‘Too many cooks spoil the broth’, but the Japanese version has a delightful absurdity about it which is illustratedin Kathryn Lamb’s witty cartoon. These and many more proverbs and sayings feature in Where There’s a Will There’s a Way, which joins the family of six other bilingual illustrated proverb books, devised in 1985 by Primrose Arnander and the late Ashkhain Skipwith: three in Arabic, and one each in Italian, French and Chinese. Each title in the series gives the proverb in its original (and where the scripts are different, provides the original scriptand its transliteration), the literal translation and the English equivalent. They are not intended as weighty works of scholarship, but rather as a source of entertainment. They make the perfect gift, as well as being useful to language students, whatever their native tongue. The cartoonist Kathryn Lamb has brought her skills to all seven titles.

Where There's a Will There's a Way: and other Japanese proverbs and sayings with English equivalents

Politics & Social Sciences

Nishimae, Ritsuko

Philosophy

Medina Publishing

Continuing the popular series of proverbs from around the world, each paired with an English equivalent, Don’t Toss Granny in the Begonias sheds an amusing and often intriguing light on the rivalry between the French and the English: an odd couple who, from time immemorial, like to dislike – or is it dislike liking? – each other. How curious that the French say, ‘Filer à l’anglaise’, while the English insist on taking French leave. Fortunately, old enemies make the best friends, and Don’t Toss Granny in the Begonias highlights the many similarities between the cultures. Witness ‘Porter l’eau à la rivière’ and ‘To carry coals to Newcastle’, or ‘Quand le chat n’est pas là, les souris dansent’ – dancing mice as opposed to their English rat counterparts, who play in the cat’s absence.

Don’t Toss Granny in the Begonias: and other french proverbs with English equivalents

Lamb, Katheryn

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