num_pages: 32
description: Best Children's Books of the Year 2013 Bank Street College2013 Storytelling World AwardA 2013 CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People2013 Honor Book South Asia Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature2013 Sydney Taylor Honor Book for Older ReadersNYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2012 Though the shah in Afghanistan tries to test his faith a poor Jewish shoemaker maintains his belief that all happens for the best. Disguised in servant's clothes an Afghani shah slips out of his palace to learn more about his people. When he encounters a poor Jewish shoemaker full of faith that everything will turn out just as it should the shah grows curious. Vowing that no harm will befall the poor man he decides to test that faith only to find that the shoemaker's cheerful optimism cannot be shaken. But the biggest challenge of the poor man's life is yet to come! Ann Stampler's retelling of this classic Afghani Jewish folktale is enriched by Carol Liddiments charming and vivid paintings.
language: English
title: The Wooden Sword: A Jewish Folktale from Afghanistan
publisher: Albert Whitman & Company