Book About:
A kind father wants to tell her little daughter, Dorsa, a bedtime story. He will tell the story, while
Dorsa’s mother will draw the pictures of it. But Dorsa wants to participate in the storytelling too.
So she constantly interrupts her father and tries to change some parts of it as she wishes the events
to happen.
The story is about a small boy, who plans to steal a bicycle from a shop. He steals the bicycle when
the shop is crowded but then, he is trapped all the other bicycles' falling down. The small boy tries
to escape. Dorsa immediately calls the police and finally the boy is arrested and taken to prison.
Dorsa feels sorry for the boy when she realizes that she was the one who called the police and
asks her parents to help the boy. It is dark and they have to be very careful, as they don’t want to
wake up the prison guards. They have to run away when suddenly a wild wind blows at the doors
and all the night guards wake up. Finally, the prison guards lose track of Dorsa and the little boy in
the jungle. After a short while, a little giant appears and takes her and the boy to his house. Both
children are terribly scared, but the baby giant seems friendly and shows the pictures of all the
bicycles he has drawn on one of his room's wall. When the baby giant asks the boy’s name, Dorsa
is forced to call him Sina; her own brother’s name. She never got a chance to ask the boy’s name.
But suddenly the baby giant decides to eat them all. How can Dorsa possibly change the story
ending and rescue their lives? Although the baby giant and Sina become friends, Dora still wants
to make sure everything is all right. She makes her best to persuade her mother and father to help
Sina in the story they are writing and drawing. When her father promises to buy a bicycle for
Dorsa, she becomes excited and…
Author About:
Ahmad Akbarpour is an Iranian well-known author.