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The Persian Cinderella

A retelling of the traditional Persian tale in which Settareh, neglected and abused by her stepmother and stepsisters, finds her life transformed with the help of a little blue jug.

Main Author:	Climo, Shirley.
Other Authors:	Florczak, Robert. (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	[New York] : HarperCollins, c1999.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Fairy tales > Juvenile fiction. Folklore > Iran > Juvenile nonfiction.

Summary:	A retelling of the traditional Persian tale in which Settareh, neglected and abused by her stepmother and stepsisters, finds her life transformed with the help of a little blue jug.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Audience:	"Age 5-9"--Bk. jacket.
ISBN:	0060267631 0060267658 (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:	Shirley Climo was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1928. She attended DePauw University until her mother died unexpectedly in 1949. She dropped out of college and took up her mother's work writing scripts for the weekly WGAR-Radio children's program Fairytale Theatre. During her lifetime, she wrote 24 books including The Korean Cinderella; Magic and Mischief: Tales from Cornwall; A Treasury of Princesses: Princess Tales from Around the World; A Treasury of Mermaids: Mermaid Tales from Around the World; and Someone Saw a Spider: Spider Facts and Folktales. She died on August 25, 2012 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography)

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