The Gardener Fox Adapted from Old Iranian Legends Skill: Crisis Management To get the crow’s chickens, the hungry fox disguises himself as a gardener to cut the tree in which the crow has made her nest. Helped by the jackdaw, the crow makes a plan to save her chickens and finally she succeeds.

Asadollah Shabani, poet and writer, was born in July 1958 in Hamedan. He has a bachelor’s degree in Persian language and literature. After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, he started working for the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon), one of the most important Iranian organizations for children’s and young adult literature. This started him on the path of writing for children. Training Kanoon’s teachers, working in the literary section of Kanoon magazines, being an expert in the Poetry Council and in charge of the Old Texts Council consist some of his activities in Kanoon in the past thirty years.