Title: Ruʼyā-yi Bābak
Description: Fourteen-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem. Includes historical notes.
Subjects: Juvenile literature, Nativity, Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction, Dreams, Zoroastrianism, Children's stories, American, Translations into Persian, Princesses, History
Places: Iran
People: Jesus Christ
Time periods: To 640