This is a favorite story from my husband’s childhood, often told to him by his mother and grandmother in Farsi, the native Persian language of Iran. He translated it from his childhood memories, and I served as typist and English-language editor, as well as illustrator for him.

c. 1992 – Translated from by memory by Hamid Dianaty, illustrated by D. Denise Dianaty. Illustrations in ink and colored pencil, scans from laminated originals.

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