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The golden sandal a Middle Eastern Cinderella

An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story in which a kind and beautiful girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister finds a husband with the help of a magic fish.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hickox, Rebecca
Other Authors:	Hillenbrand, Will (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Holiday House, c1998.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Cinderella.
Subjects:	Fairy tales > Juvenile fiction. Folklore > Juvenile.
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Summary:	An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story in which a kind and beautiful girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister finds a husband with the help of a magic fish.
Item Description:	Based on a Cinderella story from Iraq called "The little red fish and the clog of gold" in Inea Bushnaq's Arab folktales.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	0823413314 (reinforced)
Author Notes:	Rebecca Hickox is the author of Zorro and Quwi; Tales of a Trickster Guinea Pig, illustrated by Kim Howard, which Kirkus Reviews calls "delightful," in a pointer review, Per and the Dala Horse, illustrated by Yvonne Gilbert, an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists selection, and Matreshka, illustrated by Alexi Natchev, which Booklist praises as "cleverly told." A high school librarian, Rebecca Hickox lives in Salem, Oregon, with her daughter, Rebecca. Will Hillenbrand has written and illustrated many picture books for children. The Horn Book called Spring Is Here, the first Bear and Mole Story, "a sure-fire read-aloud for preschoolers;" and in a starred review, School Library Journal raved that Kite Day, the second book in the series, is "a winner for storytimes." He lives in Ohio.