The White Crow is the story of a crow chick called Black Feathers that is injured by a hunter on the first day of its flight. Black Feathers falls on the wheat crop on a farm, where a boy named Nick works. Nick takes Black Feathers to the vet. Black Feathers wakes up after a few days but realizes it can no longer fly and return to its mother. Nick suggests that it should live with his four birds, a parrot, a canary, a pigeon, and a chicken, for the rest of its life. But each one of those birds, brag about their characteristics for Black Feathers and do not accept its company. Black Feathers, with a broken heart, decides to go to the forest animals to find a friend. In the woods, it meets a turtle, a flock of deer, a wild cat and an earthworm and asks them to befriend it. But they, like the birds in the hut, reject its request. Black Feathers, unable to return to its mother or find a friend for itself, decides to find the hunter and ask him to end its life. But the hunter tells it he is not even willing to waste a bullet on a worthless animal like it and in the past, he was going to hunt a duck. It was right there that a secret was revealed to Black Feathers. Black Feathers decides to return to the wooden hut to prove itself, but as it arrives in the dark of the night, it notices a fox entering the bird’s hut. Black Feathers de-cides to save the birds’ lives, so it uses all its effort to get into the hut, but unwittingly, begins to fly. It saves each and every one of them based on the same judgments that the birds had judged it with . . . Twenty-one days after the outbreak of the war, Mehdi flew, and then a fifteen-year-old teenager flew from the hospital with thirsty lips, “As soon as Maryam arrived at the hospital, she quickly went to see Hussein Nikzad. But Hussein’s bed was vacant. Hussein’s roommates turned their faces away as they saw Maryam. Maryam was anxious. She went to the nurses' quarters and asked about Hussein.

Farideh Jahandideh is an Iranian young writer, illustrator and animator. Farideh mostly write and paint for children and young adults. Her books have greatly appreciated by Iranian young boys and girls. Her main era of activities involve novel, poetry, film scripts and children’s stories, Animation, illustrating children’s books, painting. Farideh lives in Tehran at present and engages to pen fantastic books for children and young adults throughout the world.