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Gr 2–4—Harris, Holmes, and Cannell draw on early sources and art to tell this tale of a long-ago special friendship that developed between the caliph of Baghdad and Charlemagne. As in Holmes and Cannell's My Travels with Clara (Getty, 2007) and the trio's A Giraffe Goes to Paris (Marshall Cavendish, 2010), the story is told by a narrator who was supposedly a participant in the reported events. Here it is Notker the Stammerer, a monk who in fact wrote a chronicle of Charlemagne's life. He explains that the emperor was curious about the legendary Harun al-Rashid and "sent some trusted men of his cou...Log In or Sign Up to Read More