IRANIAN CHILDREN’S BOOKS TO BE PUBLISHED IN KOREAN

Tehran Times
Feb 27 2010

TEHRAN — Four children’s books by the Iranian author Mohammadreza
Yusefi will be published in South Korea in the near future.

Released by the Shabaviz Publications, the books were translated into
Korean by Morteza Soltanpur.

His "Me, Moon and the Star", "Like Thousand Stars", "The Star and
the Fish" and "The Goat and The Palm Tree" were recently translated
into Korean.

Yusefi has written about 20 stories on a character "Star" on different
themes out of which three have been translated into Korean.

His "The Goat and The Palm Tree" is based on Iranian folk tales that
Yusefi has revised.

His "The Little Star" was recently chosen as one of the texts to be
included in the literature curriculum for primary school fifth grade
students by the Armenian Ministry of Education and Science.

The story, translated into Armenian by Georg Asaturian, is about a
lonely star in the sky that searches for a friend.