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The Girl with a Brave Heart: A Story from Tehran
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The Girl with a Brave Heart: A Story from Tehran Paperback - 2013

by Jahanforuz, Rita

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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.

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  • Title The Girl with a Brave Heart: A Story from Tehran
  • Author Jahanforuz, Rita
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 40
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Barefoot Books, United Kingdom.
  • Date 2013-03-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # N12Q-00194
  • ISBN 9781846869310 / 1846869315
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.2 in (26.92 x 21.08 x 0.51 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 10 years
  • Grade levels P - 5
  • Reading level 620
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Fairy tales, Folklore - Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012035835
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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Citations

  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2013, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2013, Page 103
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/14/2013, Page 60
  • School Library Journal, 03/01/2013, Page 114

About the author

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 finds inspiration.

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. In 2012 she was awarded The Israel Museum Ben-Yitzhak Award for the Illustration of a Children's Book. Her vibrant and evocative style is influenced by painters such as Bonnard, Hockney and Matisse. She has also illustrated The Girl with a Brave Heart for Barefoot Books.