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Description - Three Crooks by Pirayeh Yaghmaii

Hassan B and his super donkey, Hector, are legendary for their protection of citizens who are being ripped off. So when they meet an old man sitting in the road, crying because three crooks have stolen his money in the marketplace, they spring into action.

Hassan B slips some gold coins into the donkeys backside and takes him to the market. When he demonstrates his donkeys magical gift-giving powers, the three crooks want to buy Hector at any price. The crooks wake up on the third day, when all the worldly goods they will ever need are to come their way, and find they are sleeping on an enormous pile of manure.

But Hassan B and Hector are not finished with them. They divise two more ingenious schemes to get the old mans money back from the crooks and ensure a happy future for him.

Without heavy-handed preaching, THE THREE CROOKS introduces young readers to the comic storytelling values of middle eastern culture that may remind them and their adult carers of the essential humanity that these people share with us.

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