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| La souris et le voleur Didier Jeunesse (A Petits Petons) 2002 (5 years and up) A traditional Lebanese tale telling the comical story of a crafty little mouse whose piece of meat was stolen by a gigantic ogre and who goes to the judge and starts enumerating all the traps she could lay. To catch the thief. |
| Le Conte Oriental - La Tradition Orale au Liban Edisud 2001 Tales told throughout the year in Lebanon where many civilizations inter-crossed. |
| Nour et le Moineau (bilingual french-arabic) L'Harmattan (Contes du Roseau) 1999 "... one day, other sparrows started approaching Nour... and ended up eating the bread crumbs out of his hand..." |
| La Princesse Déguisée (bilingual french-arabic) L’Harmattan (Contes du Roseau) 1994 Traditional Lebanese tale: a princess is the victim of schemers; events will lead her to disappear and change her identity. |
| La Fille de l’Ogre (bilingual french-arabic) L’Harmattan (Contes du Roseau) 1993 Traditional Lebanese tale on jealousy and love: an amusing misunderstanding that makes an ogre believe he gave birth to a girl... |
| Le Prince des Génies (bilingual french-arabic) L’Harmattan (Contes du roseau) 1992 The path will be long and tortuous... |
| Saraya (bilingual french-arabic) L’Harmattan (Contes du Roseau) 1991 Traditional Lebanese tale: an ogre falls in love with Saraya who is meant to marry his cousin. |
| Les Souliers Rouges (bilingual french-arabic) L’Harmattan (Contes du roseau) 1988 An original story on war and love; A father's search for his son who has disappeared after their house was shelled. |
| Choufi Choumafi et autres contes de la montagne libanaise L’école des loisirs (Mouche) 1998 Three tales: the story of two love-birds who cure the King's daughter; the story of a big and poor family saved from starving to death by a donkey and a bee; the story of a young flutist who kicks the ogre out of the village where he used to scare everyone. |
| Hassan le Brave Ecole des loisirs (Mouche) 2002 The adventures of Hassan trying to get the ogre's braid in order to obtain half of the King's kingdom as a reward as well as his daughter's hand. |
| La Femme Chatte L’Ecole des Loisirs (Neuf), 2000 Tales -from Lebanon- where women are crafty and beautiful, and kings are cruel. |
| Les Colombes du Liban Bayard 1992 (9-14 years) In Beirut devastated by the shelling, Pierre -Lebanese, Christian- and Alia -Palestinian, Muslim- decide to fight against the war and to prove that peace is a possible thing. |
| Contes et Légendes du Liban: l'enfant des cèdres Albin Michel Jeunesse coll. contes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, 1995 Full of wisdom and respect for the environment, this story is a way of rebuilding hope in the souls of Lebanese children by telling about a child who covers Lebanon's mountains with cedars, while adults are fighting the war. |
| La Folle Odyssée de Didon ed. du Béryl 2002 The story -in between History and Mythology- of Elissa -known by her Roman name, Didon (from Dido that means in Latin "wandering")- Princess of Tyr, Queen of Carthage; focusing on her life in Tyr and the persecution she suffered from her brother Pygmalion who envied her, which made her leave Tyr and go found the city of Carthage that would become later an empire... |
| Trésors FMA 2003 A journey through time and throughout Lebanon of two friends seeking easy money. A search which quickly reveals itself to be illusory. |
| Abu Jmeel's Daughter & Other Stories: Arab Folk Tales from Palestine and Lebanon Interlink Pub Group (International Folk Tales Series), 2002 27 Arab traditional folk stories the author had recounted to the children of her family over the years. |
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