Troubles of a Magic Mirror in School

According to the reporter of Iran Book News Agency (IBNA), second-grade students who are just starting to read, if they befriend books, will continue reading them forever. Making those who have just started reading friends with books has its own nuances and complexities. Among these complexities is that books must have an entertainment aspect.

We are dealing with a target audience that we must first introduce to reading. This is a goal that Ofoq Publications pursues in its ‘Second Grade, Second Book’ series, publishing books that are easy to read with a lovable and imaginative world for children who have just started reading.

At the end of each book, questions about the story are asked, and they are encouraged to complete parts of the story to foster children’s imagination and visualization.

In the book ‘Jighoul and the Magic Mirror’ from this series, we read the story of a classroom with a strange teacher named Mr. Bozorgzadeh. In this class, we also have a strange student, a baby ghoul named Jighoul, who has a mirror; he looks into it and asks, ‘Who is the smartest kid in class?’ and when he sees his own reflection, he gets excited.

This funny baby ghoul and his magic mirror create interesting adventures, and playing with words in this book is attractive and entertaining for children who are just starting to read.

‘Jighoul and the Magic Mirror’ was written by Fatemeh Sarmashghi and illustrated by Ra’na Hejazi. Ofoq Publications has also made it available to enthusiasts for 185,000 Tomans.