| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780064404419 | | Publisher: Harpertrophy | | Publish Date: 8/1/1992 | | Buy.com Sku: 30006230 | | Item#: RKPS67 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.75H x 5.25L x 0.5T |
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| | | In a land where animals talk, ghosts marry, and rocks and streams are magical, anything is possible. . . . Newbery Honor Award-winner Laurence Yep has collected and retold 20 folktales originally recounted by Chinese-American immigrants as part of a 1930s WPA project. 1989 Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book for Non-Fiction.
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This retelling of 20 stories drawn from Chinese culture are from a WPA project in Oakland's Chinatown from the 1930s. Divided into sections with titles like "Tricksters", "Fools", and "Virtues and Vices", these folktales cover a range of subjects in keeping with South China's oral traditions.
| PraiseKirkus
"Yep's telling is vigorous, often poetic, imbued with earthy humor and realism touched with fatalism. A handsomely designed collection."Booklist
"A powerful compilation that will be read for its own magic." (unknown)
"This is a collection that will enlighten and beguile." |
| Author BioDavid Wiesner grew up loving to draw in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and went on to receive a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1983. Though he was initially not interested in illustrating for children, Wiesner's early foray into creating cover art for a popular kid's magazine, Cricket, put him an extremely successful path that garnered the artist several awards. A three-time Caldecott Medal recipient, Wiesner is best known for his gorgeously detailed, wordless (or sparsely worded) picture books. In 2007, he won the Caldecott for FLOTSAM.
| Awards |
Horn Book Award (1989) |  | finalist, Nonfiction | | |
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