That Night's Train

Banafshe, a five-year-old girl, becomes acquainted in a train with a young teacher who is a writer for children. They become friends and decide to meet on a Friday when the teacher will call Banafshe and their friendship to be continued. The teacher, who was going to a village to teach, takes off the train at the next station and departs from Banafshe and her grandmother. The second and fourth chapter of the book is another narration by the young teacher who reads her story (the story of Banafsh...

That Night's Train

Korean translation

Good Night Commander

This story can be the story of any child who is the victim of war anywhere in the world. With a few words, the writer creates the most intensive impact on the reader and takes the reader to the world of a traumatic boy who is searching for peace.

Good Night Commander

Chinese translation

Different language versions of Good Night Commander

The Open-Ended Stories

The five title series of "The Open-Ended Stories" is full of animals, people and unpredictable adventures; a kid grows a tail, and a sparrow loses her chirps. The writer has come up with three different endings for each story, but the fourth ending is of much more importance because it must be written by the reader!

On my command: Bark Bark Bark!

Don't open the letter, crow!

Don't look at my tail !

The unwanted guests

Taxi for the honorable chicken

If I was a pilot

The story is told by an unnamed narrator and his three friends, Emad, Kahzad, and Rashid, who have gone to the hills around their village to find examples of flowers and deliver it their teacher as a homework. While surfing, they encounter four planes flying over the area, a scene strikes all four children with admiration and amazement. This joy does not last and they hurriedly return to the village .

If I was a pilot

Italian translation

If I was a pilot

German translation

Wedding with the sun

There was a mouse who was the bravest mouse in the whole wide world. Many of the lady mice dreamed of becoming his wife, but he would always say,
"No, no, I want to marry the strongest creature in the world." he would walk past the ladies and think,
"Imagine me marrying a teensy mouse! Ugh!"
"Wedding with the Sun" is retold from an ancient Iranian folktale. The story familiarizes children with natural phenomena and their power and effects in a satirical narration.

Wedding with the sun

Persian cover

I'm a Scarecrow, but I'm Scared

Once upon a time, a farmer made the ugliest and most horrible scarecrow in the world. The scarecrow did not wish to scare anyone; in fact, there were lots of things that scared our scarecrow. Darkness frightened him; he was scared when he heard something rustle; and his loneliness scared him the most. So, he wanted to find a friend as soon as possible. But who would become friends with an ugly scarecrow?

I'm a Scarecrow, but I'm Scared

Persian cover

I was a deer

The author tells the tale of a deer, hunted
during the hunting games of a king. The illustrations masterfully
depict the ups and down of life as a wild deer in the meadows.

I was a deer

Arabic translation

The Giant and the Bicycle

" I’m going to write a story for my daughter Dorsa about a giant and a bicycle. Her mother is going to sketch the illustrations. Dorsa says, “Daddy, is it going to be scary?” I reply, “We don’t know yet.” She says, “Write it!” " -from the book

Emperor of the words

A boy wants to read a story; at the beginning of the story, he read a poem by a Korean teenager about the unification of the world and the friendship of all nations. The boy becomes interested to find out more about the poet and his country. The story continues with a Chinese girl named Sunny, who because of erasing the borders of China in geography class, is imprisoned by the Emperor of China in the book (the same story as read by the boy). The boy becomes friend with Sunny. The writer asks the...

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Silent Girl with Noisy Birds

This story is about a girl called Golnesa. The girl is mute and loves village birds. Bibi Nabat
is an old lady who comes from 7 villages far to try and cure her.

Train of words

Hiccup Moments

Hiccup Moments is the narratives of the friendship of two teenagers, whose rivalries and friendships form their relationship: Amin and Behrouz. Amin is the narrator of the story and Behrooz is the second boy who seems to be more successful than Amin in many perspectives. This makes Amin the narrator play some tricks along the way, although later he becomes ashamed of these tricks and harassments that are caused by jealousy.

The World in the Margin of my Notebook

Seven Labors and More,

which is published a few years after I am not Your Daddy’s Servant, the main character is a writer named David, who is naturally associated with David in I am not Your Daddy’s Servant, and therefore with Akbarpour the writer.

I am not Your Daddy’s Servant

David is a boy who constantly strives to attract his father's attention. He does most of his father's affairs at home. This provokes the anger of his brothers and they start calling him "Daddy's servant". One day a bunch of father's banknotes falls in the toilet well, and the greedy father wants to send one of his children in the well. David, who is more frustrated with his brother's jokes about him, resists the demands and threats of his father, and eventually, another family member pulls the m...

Emperor of words

Turkish translation

I am not Your Daddy’s Servant

Turkish translation

That night's train

Persian cover

Letters to no one

This book has 10 related chapters. In this work, Akbarpour used folklore of the south
regions of Iran a lot. The fantasy world expressed in this story is derived from this folklore. The
fantasy begins when protagonist sleeps. Impossibilities become completely possible and sometimes
this matter is entirely indicated in dialogues:

Goodbye Moon !

The Human Zoo

This book is a story about hunting, and separating animals from their
natural habitats and their real home. In this story, as a Leopard cub
called Pangul disappears and...

Three Magical Whistles

work that deals with the problems associated with the separation of parents and their new marriages. Although the author's tone in many of these works is humorous, he has expressed perfectly well the problems of these children and adolescents.

Three Magical Whistles