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| Books 11 to 15 of 160 Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 > | | |
The Little Kingfisher | 
18 Pages | | | | Age Group: | 8+ | | Illustrator: | Masoud Gharebaghi | | Publisher: | Unpublished | | Writer: | Masoud Gharebaghi | | Abstract: | “if you talk, you can’t listen, and when you don’t listen, you won’t learn. This is the last sentences of the little kingfisher’s father. The little impatient bird wants to talk and have fun. However, when having a cheerful chat with a flock of chatty parrots, he gets trapped. When seeing that talking to the parrots, who always talk over each other has no use, he falls silent. But this silence is actually the key of freedom |
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The Lion King | 
32 Pages | | | | Age Group: | +7 | | Illustrator: | Amir Shabanipour | | Publisher: | IRHCLI | | Writer: | Hadi Mohammadi | | Abstract: | The King Lion is a retelling of an ancient tale in Kelileh and Demneh and Mowlana Rumi’s Mathnavi. The King Lion tells the story of a tyrant lion who has taken the entire jungle under his dominion by the use of force and violence; so much so that, wearied by this tyranny, the other animals already see themselves as victims and decide to submit and to go to the lion’s den voluntarily to be preyed on and devoured by the lion. One rabbit, however, distinguishes itself from the others by choosing to fight and finally topples the lion down a deep well with trickery. |
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The Farmer |  | | | | Age Group: | 6+ | | Illustrator: | Hassan Mousavi | | Rights Sold: | Chinese | | Writer: | Hassan Mousavi | | Abstract: | This Farmer has a consuming passion for fishing. He farms every day desperately in order to buy a fishing boat. However, after buying the boat, he prefers to use it as a carrier to send his products to cities. To him, having a larger boat is better. He is desperately endeavoring every day. His vast fields overspread everywhere except a small piece of land. When he visits there, a petit girl is fishing to enlarge her field. So, the farmer opts to deal with her to have her boat for his fields |
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The Bomb and the School |  | | | | Age Group: | 8+ | | Illustrator: | Hadi Baghdadi | | World Rights Available: | Unpublished | | Writer: | Ebrahimi, Payam | | Abstract: | Mr. Shinsuke is teaching history in the class when all of a sudden everyone hears a loud voice coming closer and closer and a bomb comes into the class! The bomb seems like it’s not supposed to explode. The general and soldiers come. They said they can’t move the bomb because it may explode, and the student has to treat the bomb nicely and take care of it, not to make it explode.
The story goes as the students try to be nice, and treat gently with the bomb and the bomb little by little tried to be a good classmate and a part of a class.
The students and the bomb become a kind of friend and live together in peace. After graduation day, and saying goodbye to all the classmates, the bomb misses its classmates, its heart broke and it explodes. |
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The Old King and New One | 
978-600-152-211-6 | | | | Age Group: | 8+ | | Illustrator: | Golmohammadi, Feeroozeh | | Publisher: | Nazar, Iran | | Writer: | Mehdi Hajvani | | Abstract: | The king suffers from insomnia. The court witchcraft medicines do not work, so another Indian witch comes to rescue. However, the two witches get involve in complicity and give the king a medicine that puts him to eternal sleep. Then, the two bribe the guards, steal the king’s jewelry and property and flee. Consequently, people who feel free choose someone among themselves to be a king who differs from the former king only in appearance.
This picture book tells the story of societies whose people, instead of challenging the monarchy, fight the king, and try to change others instead of changing their own mindset, and wait for someone to take responsibility instead of shouldering the burden. |
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