The Moon

This story introduces children to the various shapes and names of the moon when it assumes a thin banana shape or a full orange shape. In the night, the moon wakes up from its sleep and puts on a silver wardrobe to illuminate the roads and streets. He searches for the stars to play with them hide and seek and when their laughter rings out loud, he says: “Hush hush… Everybody is asleep. Silence.”

The second day, the moon hears a child pointing at him saying: “Look up there. The moon is a Hilal (Arabic for crescent).” So he runs towards his friends, the stars, sad and confused at the assumption that people do not know him. But when the stars explain to him that people still love him even when he looks like a silver banana, the moon embraces his new name and resumes the play with them.

The third day, he hears a little girl say: “Look, the moon is a Badr (Arabic for full moon),” so he turns to the stars again in confusion. “The name could be attributed to your circular orange-shaped form. In any case, Badr is a beautiful name,” the stars reply, hoping to help the moon accept his new identity.

On the fourth day, the stars come in and find the moon sitting all alone, sad and puzzled why he is Hilal one day and Badr the next. He inquires about the reason from the sun, which responds laughing: “You are special. You have two shapes and two names. When you are partly illuminated, you are a Hilal and when you are fully lit, you become a Badr.”

Dreams

This story aims at acquainting children with the differences between dreams and reality, through a series of dreams that vary between funny, annoying, magical and bizarre. On the first day, the boy dreams that his color is purple. The next day, the dream stops being funny when he sees 14 other people with the same color as himself. In his third dream, he screams “no” every time he opens his mouth. On day four, he finds himself trapped in an unusual dream, sitting on a silver star and conversing with the moon, while examining every nook and corner on earth. On the fifth and final day, he wakes up suddenly after having dreamt that he lost motion.

The section on nighttime also includes The Owl and The Dark