"There was once a woman who had no children. She prayed to Allah: 'I would love a child, even if it is nothing more than a cooking pot!' Willa! She had a child! And it was a little pot!"

But the pot is mischievous, and as soon as she's allowed to go to market by herself, she gets into trouble by stealing. In the end, she learns her lesson when she gets filled with goat poop. "Little Pot, I hope you've learned your lesson. You cannot take things that do not belong to you!"

A little on the long side, so good for PreK-2nd grade. ( )

This book was about a little pot that wanted to go out alone. She finds herself in some trouble when she ends up stealing. She ends up learning a lessons between what is right and wrong. ( )

Acrylic on paper. Grades pre-K and up. This Palestinian folktale would be useful in an exploration of traditional literature from many cultures. Students could look for similarities between folktales of different cultures. Example of a numbskull/noodlehead tale.

Everyone in this is kind of weirdly self-righteous and venial and there is a lot of scolding of the precocious little pot protagonist, but it still works. ( )

A Palestinian folktale about a woman who teaches a little pot about right and wrong