num_pages: 76
description: Once Upon a Star is a creative work, with the key themes of dreams, spirituality, self-love, identity, self-reliance, and relationship. The story is full of delightful prose, rich imagery and metaphor, beautiful illustrations, simple yet profound. The book's main character, Roya, witnesses the fall of a star and in an attempt to save it, she is swept into an imaginative land on a faraway star. There she travels in quest of an elusive Barrier so that she may cross it to return home. In her quest, she meets seven colorful characters, including her own spirit. Through Roya and the characters in the story we learn much about the book's, indeed life's, central themes. We also learn something of the importance of perspective, open and creative thinking, imagination and child-like wonder in a happy and enriching life. The author has employed themes from Persian history, philosophy and culture to create original characters and a story line with a global appeal. Once Upon A Star is short and sweet enough to read to even very small children, who will undoubtedly fall in love with the book's direct style of narration and both memorable and charmingly funny persons and events.
title: Once Upon a Star
titlecomplete: Once Upon a Star
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Avesta International Publishing Group