Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story by Rebecca Hickox
	List Price:   $7.99 Unit Price:   $6.39 You Save:   $1.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   0823415139 ISBN-13:   9780823415137 Publisher:   Holiday House Category:   Folklore/Fairy Tales Pub. Date:   January 1998 Pages:   32 Format:   Picture Book Ages:   5 to 8 Grades:   0 to 3
Subjects
cinderella middle east FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE
Description/Notes
Rebecca Hickox provides 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. Luck and happiness come to a neglected, motherless girl. Maha's jealous stepmother makes her do all the housework while her selfish stepsister lazes about. There is no one to help or comfort her since Maha's father is away fishing. All that begins to change when Maha finds a magical red fish.