Scheherazade, the Storyteller Queen

Classical Stories · No. 10 — The queen who told stories for her life.

• Classical Stories
• 40 min
• Ages 8–13
• 6 chapters

About this audiobook

Betrayed once, King Shahryar decides he will never be betrayed again: he marries a new bride each day and orders her put to death at dawn. The kingdom empties of daughters — until Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter, volunteers against her father's pleading. Her weapon is a plan made with her sister and a memory holding a thousand tales. Each night she begins a story; each dawn arrives at the exact moment the story cannot be left unfinished. One night becomes a thousand and one, and somewhere among them a broken king slowly becomes a person again.

Why it's worth a listen

The season finale, where storytelling itself becomes the hero: one tale, ended on a cliffhanger at dawn, buys one more day — a thousand and one times. It is the story that holds all the others inside it, and the boldest answer ever given to the question this series opened with: yes, a story can save a life.

A question to keep

Can a story save a life?

Based on the book by A tale from Persia, published by Emma's Library original retelling

Chapters

1. The Shadow Over Samarkand
2. The Library of the Vizier
3. The First Dawn
4. The Nested Boxes of the Mind
5. The Thousand and First Night
6. A Question to Keep