Pea Boy and Other Stories from Iran by Elizabeth Laird

Stories were collected in every region, amounting to over 300 in total. Laird set up The Ethiopian Story Collecting Project in 1996 in collaboration with Michael Sargent, the British Council in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Ministry of Education with the aim of creating reading materials in English for use in Ethiopian schools.

The Jackal and the Rabbit: Fables of Kalilah and Dimnah (2013).

When the World Began: Stories from Ethiopia (2001).

The Prince who Walked with Lions (2012), about Prince Alemayehu.

A Little Piece of Ground (with Sonia Nimr, 2003).

Red Sky in the Morning aka Loving Ben (1988).

Laird has received several awards for her work, and has been shortlisted six times for the Carnegie Medal for British children's literature. Laird has been a judge of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction since its inception in 2010. Laird's first children's novel, Red Sky in the Morning (Heinemann, 1988), was inspired in some measure by her brother's life. He suffered severe disabilities and died in 1949. The family settled in Purley, near London in 1945. She was the fourth child of her Scottish father and New Zealand mother.

Her books have been translated into at least twenty languages. She is also known for the large body of folktales which she collected from the regions of Ethiopia. For the Canadian physicist, see Elizabeth Laird (physicist).Įlizabeth Laird (born 1943) is a British writer of children's fiction and travel.

Pea Boy and Other Stories from Iran by Elizabeth Laird