Publisher's Synopsis
Haroun is the son of Rashid, the Shah of Blah, the greatest of all storytellers. Rashid conjures up magical worlds and brings laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. Then, one terrible day, everything goes wrong: Haroun's mother leaves home and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father and flies on the back of the Hoopoe bird to the Sea of Stories. So begins a fabulous quest as dazzling as any of Rashid's stories.