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Vafaeian, Marjan, Reteller

The Parrot and the Merchant: A Tale by Rumi

32 pp. | Tiny Owl | May, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-1-910328-03-3 $16.99
(2) 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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