The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story

Rebecca Hickox

Holiday House, 1998 - Fiction - 32 pages

Maha's jealous stepmother makes her do all the housework while her selfish stepsister lazes about. There is no one to help or comfort her since Maha's father is away fishing. All that begins to change when Maha finds a magical red fish.

About the author

Rebecca Hickox is the author of Zorro and Quwi: Tales of a Trickster Guinea Pig, illustrated by Kim Howard, which Kirkus Reviews calls "delightful," in a pointer review, Per and the Dala Horse, illustrated by Yvonne Gilbert, an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists selection, and Matreshka, illustrated by Alexi Natchev, which Booklist praises as "cleverly told." A high school librarian, Rebecca Hickox lives in Salem, Oregon, with her daughter, Rebecca. Will Hillenbrand illustrated The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: A Story from the Arabian Nights, retold by Eric A. Kimmel, of which Publishers Weekly writes, "Hillenbrand brings to the tale a light heartedness that should woo readers," and Wicked Jack, by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge, the winner of the 1996 Irma S. and James H. Black Book Award given by the Bank Street College of Education. He lives in Terrace Park, Ohio, with his wife, Jane, and their son, Ian.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story
• Author: Rebecca Hickox
• Illustrated by: Will Hillenbrand
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Holiday House, 1998
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jan 20, 2010
• ISBN: 0823413314, 9780823413317
• Length: 32 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Country & Ethnic; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General; Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / General