The present book contains eight stories tilted: The Cage, The Apple Tree, The Turquoise Sky, The Scent of Textile Design of the Shirt, Vows and Promises, My Son Is Tall, The Honey Hearted, and When the Pomegranate Cracks Open. The first two stories in the My Son Is Tall collection are the stories of the innocent feelings and fascination of children toward trees and birds. In the first story, The Cage, the author tells the story of a boy named Ghlich, who buried his dead canary under a mulberry tree behind the graveyard. The children’s effort to perform the burial ceremony by the canary’s grave shapes a brilliant chapter of their childish innocence and love. The Ghlich’s emotional affair with his canary continues to the point where his attempt to buy or trap another bird fails. In the story The Apple Tree, the author depicts this childish emotion in the context of a little girl’s relationship with an apple tree that has grown between the wall of their home and their neighbor’s. But the focus of the story is the red apple that grows on the neighbor’s side of the tree and has captured the entire mind and feelings of the heroine, which shapes the conflict between her and the neighbor’s son, Ali. However, both of them ultimately own the red apple, and the generous tree that connects the two houses creates a connecting link between them. The Turquoise Sky is the story of a man whose wife is dead, proposing a teenage girl for marriage. In this story, although the author does not inform us much about the circumstances of the two families and the reasons for this marriage proposal, she artfully and beautifully portrays the innocence and nativity of the girl and her childlike perspective of the situation. Other interesting and readable stories of the book include The Scent of Textile Design of the Shirt, Vows, and Promises, My Son Is Tall, etc. The stories in the book all have a moral and educational dimension. For example, the story My Son Is Tall is about some families who prefer having a son rather than a daughter and sometimes this matter even causes their life to fall apart . . . Book Expert: That curtain was the last curtain. Rostam had rested Sohrab’s head on his knee. Blood had gushed from Sohrab’s side to the ground. The water drops on the willow trees’ branch tips trickled on the Zaghi’s shoulder. Zaghi looked at the horizon, which first turned red like a slapped face and then deep blue. Habib wrapped the piece of cloth around the light bulb, underneath the vine clusters and unscrewed the light bulb to turn it off and said, “I told the Mordshed (stand-up storyteller) to start sooner since the weather looks sick. Finally, this sky spoiled our show.” From Zaghi’s point of view, the horse on the tapestry was neighing and sniffing the soil, the smell of cardamoms-laced tea and the hookah of customers was lurking in the air.

Anahita Arvan (1975-Tehran) Anahita Arvan is an Iranian female writer who started her career in the year 2000. Some her successful works include the My Son is Tall fiction series and the novel Let Troy Burn. Other achievements of this author include: top rating at the 8th Biennial Children and Adolescents Press Festival in 2007 in editorial section (jointly with Mohammad Reza Bayrami) - top rating at the 16th International Storytelling Festival in 2012 in rewriting and recreating ancient texts section, and being acknowledged at the 8th round of Parvin Etesami Prize in 2018 with the novel Let Troy Burn.