After showing kindness to a strange old woman, Shiraz receives the gift of beauty but her lazy and unkind stepsister, Nargues, suffers a less pleasant fate in this adaptation of the Grimm's fairy tale, Mother Hulda, reset in Tehran, Iran.

Adapted from a German fairy tale originally known as Frau Holle or Mother Hulda. "Step inside a story". "Originally published in Hebrew by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Publishing"--Half title.