The Girl With a Brave Heart - A Story from Tehran

Informationen zum Autor Rita Jahanforuz is a well-known and highly respected singer in Israel. She was born in Tehran and her family emigrated in 1970, when she was eight years old. She never forgot her Persian origins and childhood memories, in which she found inspiration for The Girl with a Brave Heart. Vali Mintzi was born in Romania and studied at the prestigious Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. She works as an illustrator and graphic editor for the children's art magazine Einayim. Klappentext 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, OMother Hulda, O reset in Tehran, Iran. Illustrations. Zusammenfassung Young Shiraz lives a lonely life with her stepmother and stepsister, completely unaware of the old woman who lives alone next door...until Shiraz's runaway yarn ball brings them face-to-face. This beautiful story from Tehran-born Israeli pop star Rita Jahanforuz explores the power of listening to others and the value of empathy.

Product details

• Authors: Rita Jahanforuz, Rita/ Mintzi Jahanforuz, Jahanforuz Rita, Rita Jahanfouz, Riotah
• Assisted by: Vali Mintzi (Illustration)
• Publisher: Barefoot Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 10
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2013
• EAN: 9781846869310
• ISBN: 978-1-84686-931-0
• Dimensions: 2204 mm x 270 mm x 4 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; Middle East, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Places / Middle East