‘Auntie Stork and Its Sweet Bread’ consists of three fascinating short stories: 1. As spring comes, the ‘Snow Man’ starts rolling his snowy carpet to leave until next year, when he notices a footprint on his snowy carpet. He doesn’t know whose footprint it is. So he asks his animal friends to find it out since he has no more time to stay, letting him know when he comes back next year. 2. ‘Auntie Stork and Its Sweet Bread’ tells the story of a stork whose sweet bread is nicked by a cat. As the cat is about to munch on the bread, auntie stork sees him and takes her bread back. 3. ‘A Chicken Who’s Not Afraid of Cats’ is the story of a lion-hearted chicken that’s not afraid of anything. It is how he defeats a cat, running off from getting caught.

Shokooh Ghasemnia was born in 1955. She is an Iranian significant little children’s writer and poet. Being a managing editor, Ghasemnia has worked with many children and young adults’ journals. She wrote more than 200 stories and poems, most of them for early readers. Her works have won numerous national awards, including the best book of the year for ‘The Little Hely in the Giants’ Land’ and ‘How Nice Golak Is’. Her ‘How Nice Golak Is’ has been translated into Japanese. Some of her other works have also been translated into other languages, namely into Turkish.