The King and the Water Seller story arrived at the point when I realised the Sharing Stories project was starting to come together. We had spent a few weeks with an ESOL group supported by Inverclyde Community Learning and Development, and the first few weeks were mostly hilariously awkward attempts to bridge the language gaps and generally plunging down into them instead.
But on this week, we finally established a rhythm, of reading, translating, scribbling and sketching - a collaborative effort to get from the start of a story all the way to the end. It was great. And once we had all figured out that this was how we needed to do it, the stories just kept coming...
An Arabic version can be heard on youtube.
