2010, Barefoot Books, Cambridge, MA
avail in HC and paper - and at Bosler
40 pgs.
Goodreads rating: 4.37 - 112 ratings
My rating: 3
Endpapers- a solid muddy brown
1st line/s: "On a quiet street in the city of Tehran lived a little girl called Shiraz."
My comments: Another Cinderella Story - this time from Iran. Shiraz lives in Tehran and loses a ball of yarn in a very strange woman's garden. I would have loved a little more cultural "stuff" from Iran, but some of the illustrations give hints about this. The title seems a little misleading, too, since they never talk - at all - about Shiraz being brave, only being loving and kind. Excellent for comparing and contrasting several different Cinderella stories.
Goodreads: After showing kindness to a strange old woman, Shiraz receives the gift of beauty but her lazy and unkind stepsister, Nargues, suffers a less pleasant fate in this adaptation of the Grimm's fairy tale, Mother Hulda, reset in Tehran, Iran.
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