Fatima and the Dream Thief

I don't think I ever posted about this. A while back in my discipleship group, we took two weeks to have milk, cookies and read stories. One week was children's week and we read the story Fatima and the Dream Thief. The story is Middle Eastern in origin and absolutely wonderful. It has a surprise ending too. Definitely worth buying for your collection. Fatima is a young girl of a poor family whose older brother went to work for an evil man who ended up stealing the boy's dreams, leaving him in a catatonic state. Fatima decides, against her mother's wishes, that she will work for the man and win back her brother's dreams. The illustrations and ending are exquisite.