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When a great storm separates a young lioness from her pride, she runs through the rain and the lightning until she finds shelter in a cave. In the darkness, she meets a wise snake -- and the snake begins to tell her a story.
Sarpa and Simhi: The Beginning is written for children and for the people who read to them. Because some stories are written for children and arrive like a gift for the adult holding the book.
Its language is simple. Its questions are not.
This volume contains two complete stories. The first is a picture book, illustrated on every spread -- original black-and-white drawings accompanying each page of the young lioness Si?h? as she finds her way through grief and fear toward courage and home. The second moves into chapter book territory -- the language deepening, the illustrations stepping back, the story beginning to carry its own weight.
Sarpa does not comfort Simhi with easy words. He tells her a story. And inside that story is a teaching as old as the language it comes from -- that darkness is where the journey begins, that grief is not the end of love, and that courage is not the absence of fear but what is found on the other side of it.
Together they are the beginning of Simhi: The Becoming -- thirteen books that follow the young lioness from lost cub to adulthood, through the oldest stories ever told. Stories of fire and devotion, of courage and sacrifice, of what it means to come home.
Each book is a story complete in itself. Together they form a single journey.
The name Simhi comes from Sanskrit, one of the world's oldest languages, and means lion. A note on pronunciation is included for all names.
To be read aloud, together.
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