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Vafaeian, Marjan
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K-3
Translated by Azita Rassi.
Illustrated by
Marjan Vafaeian.
Persian merchant Mah Jahan collects birds and keeps them "in cages...so that they couldn't...leave her." When her favorite, a parrot, asks her to visit its former colony in India, she does and is shocked when one of the wild birds drops dead. Back home, Mah Jahan tells her parrot what happened--and it drops dead. But it's a ruse: the parrot's friends sent "a story...to teach me how to escape." A thought-provoking, visually striking retelling originally published in Tehran.
Reviewer: Julie Hakim Azzam
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2019
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