Adventures with Ajooba, the Magic Carpet
This short book for kids is a long story that can be divided into several short storis, each with a moral theme or incident.
Excerpts:
Both children were eager to listen, so Sona told them how she and her friend, Pasha, had helped a magician couple a few years back and they had given them the ability to understand and speak all human, bird and animal languages spoken at the time. They had also gifted them a magic carpet that could not only take anyone who sat on it to any place in the universe but also to any point of time in the past or future.
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“Tu-whit, tu-whoo,” repeated the big owl with its wings flapping desperately, as if trying to attract her attention. And then, Almyra noticed a bat perched on the window sill with the magic carpet held in her mouth. It was Sona! Almyra was thrilled. She quickly opened the window and let them in.
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Micky and Almyra tried to imagine dogs and birds with guns, elephants trying to go into fighter aircraft, tigers moving in aircraft bombing forests. They burst out laughing.
“No,” said Almyra, “neither do they have terrorist birds and animals blowing themselves or others up.”
“Exactly,” said Sona, “ and people do such stupid things despite such great souls like, Jesus, Krishna, Muhammad, the Buddha, Guru Nanak, the Bahai’ullah and so many more among them.”