Urs Widmer has carefully condensed the wonderful stories from 'One Thousand and One Nights' without stripping them of their oriental charm. He vividly, robustly, and entertainingly retells the six most famous stories of the immortal Scheherazade. To make this grand collection of fairy tales "a source of endless enjoyment, the richest picture book in the world" (Hermann Hesse), Tatjana Hauptmann, the artist, has set to work to capture the oriental richness and subtlety in her illustrations.