Yalvaç Ural, one of the most acclaimed Turkish authors of children’s literature, compiles 46 Sumerian fables in this book. Carved on clay tablets thousands of years ago, these Sumerian fables could be the very first fables of human history and the first literary products of the Sumerian oral narrative tradition. During a research of twelve years, the author worked on these tablets and round up broken structures, proverbs, idioms, missing translations left to us by the Sumerian. Finding similarities between Aesop’s fables and Sumerian writings on tablets, the experienced author aims to show us that the first ever written fables could be these Sumerian fables. The illustrations of Erdoğan Oğultekin reflects the life in those times. An enlightening title to discover a glimpse of Sumerian history.

Yalvaç Ural has over 100 published books and is an internationally renowned author whose books have been translated into different languages. Two of his stories are read by students in Oxford University Press’ textbooks. He received various prestigious awards. Among them, in 1986 he received the Best Children’s Book Author by TRT. In 2003 he received the Kosovo Author of the Year Award.