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Rent The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: Aug 1999
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore - Asian
Retail Price: $7.99
Ages: 04 - 08
Synopsis
An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story. Known in Arabic as 'The Red Fish and the Clog of Gold,' this is the story of Maha, a fisherman's daughter, and her tribulations with her stepmother and stepsister. Maha finds a small red fish in a basket one day. Releasing it back into the water, she is told that no kindness goes unrewarded. The fish becomes her source of help whenever life becomes too difficult.