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Pea boy and other stories from Iran

Retells folktales and fables from Iran, including the story of a mouse and a cockroach who fell in love, a foolish weaver's apprentice, and a boy with the head of a chickpea.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Laird, Elizabeth
Other Authors:	Adl, Shirin
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Frances Lincoln Children's, 2009.
Subjects:	Folklore > Juvenile. Children's stories, English. Iran > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Retells folktales and fables from Iran, including the story of a mouse and a cockroach who fell in love, a foolish weaver's apprentice, and a boy with the head of a chickpea.
Physical Description:	61 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN:	9781845079123 (hbk.) 1845079124 (hbk.)
Author Notes:	Elizabeth Laird is the renowned author of Kiss the Dust, The Garbage King and A Little Piece of Ground. She has been shortlisted five times for the Carnegie Medal. She has a longstanding interest in Persian literature and has travelled extensively throughout the Middle East. Her other books for Frances Lincoln are Pea Boy: Stories from Iran, A Fistful of Pearls: Stories from Iraq, and The Ogress and the Snake: Stories from Somalia. Elizabeth divides her time between London and Edinburgh. SHIRIN ADL was born in Harlow, England, in 1975. She received a first class BA honours in illustration from Loughborough University, and won the Hallmark M&S division Talented Designer Award. She currently lives in Oxford with her husband.