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Ghelghelak’s cocoon was beside grandma

Written by: Mozhgan Babamarandi
Illustrated by: Hassan Amekan
Publisher: Alhoda Publications
Category: Children / Young Adults
Year: 2016
12 Pages,
Dimension:14x14
ISBN:978 9643009182
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Book About:

The narrator and his grandmother find a silkworm among vegetables. The narrator makes a nest for the worm, calling it Ghelghelak, and starts feeding it. A few days later the grandmother gets sick. Ghelghelak converts into a cocoon. When the narrator accompanies her parents who are visiting grandma’s tomb, they roam the grandmother's gravestone and recite Sureh Hamd from the Quran for her. At the same time, Ghelghelak comes out of its cocoon. The author tries to explain a grandmother's death and the evolution of a worm into a cocoon and then its con-version into a butterfly, to a child as her book’s reader/addressee/audience. As children in our culture have not learned that death is an integral and inseparable part of life. Perhaps, this way, they will learn that death is merely an emancipation of the body. It should be noted that this book used to be recited (to the children) personally by its author in the libraries of the Center for the Development of Intellectual Property of Children and Teenagers. Hence, those children are familiar with the book and established a good relationship with it.

Author About:

Mozhgan Babamarandi has started writing for children since 1995 focusing mostly on teenagers. She is a well-known figure in Iranian children & teenagers’ literature and her books are published by famous Iranian publish-ers. Her stories reflect her own childhood. Her books contain ethical and social themes. She is fond of short-story format and this is the prominent format of her books which are published in Iran.. At the time being, she lives in Tehran. She is the author of more than 28 books of novel and collection of stories for children and young Adults

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