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"Behavior not befitting the son of the Dragon King!"
The Dragon King has sent his nine sons out to find their places in the world, but rumors abound -- each son is apparently as aimless as the next! One son does nothing but stare into space, another spends his day frolicking in a stream, another plays with fire, and still another hollers and yells from noon till night. The king realizes it's time to visit each son to see if the rumors are true. What he finds surprises him, for each son has a very special gift that continues to serve and enrich China's culture to this very day.
Two-time Caldecott winner Ed Young brings us a legend of a very special parent recognizing the potential in his very special children, and in doing so, shows how a simple folktale shaped a visible part of Chinese culture.
The Dragon King has sent his nine sons out to find their places in the world, but rumors abound -- each son is apparently as aimless as the next! One son does nothing but stare into space, another spends his day frolicking in a stream, another plays with fire, and still another hollers and yells from noon till night. The king realizes it's time to visit each son to see if the rumors are true. What he finds surprises him, for each son has a very special gift that continues to serve and enrich China's culture to this very day.
Two-time Caldecott winner Ed Young brings us a legend of a very special parent recognizing the potential in his very special children, and in doing so, shows how a simple folktale shaped a visible part of Chinese culture.
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Ed Young is the illustrator of more than eighty books for children, seventeen of which he has also written. Most notably, he is the Caldecott Medalist for Lon Po Po and the Caldecott Honor recipient for both The Emperor and the Kite and Seven Blind Mice. Young lives in Westchester County, New York.
Ed Young is the illustrator of more than eighty books for children, seventeen of which he has also written. Most notably, he is the Caldecott Medalist for Lon Po Po and the Caldecott Honor recipient for both The Emperor and the Kite and Seven Blind Mice. Young lives in Westchester County, New York.
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Ed Young is the illustrator of more than eighty books for children, seventeen of which he has also written. Most notably, he is the Caldecott Medalist for Lon Po Po and the Caldecott Honor recipient for both The Emperor and the Kite and Seven Blind Mice. Young lives in Westchester County, New York.
Gr. 3-5. The Dragon King's nine sons have been sent forth to find their true callings. Unfortunately, they gravitate to activities that seem self-indulgent, such as breaking into song or "fuss[ing] about in the kitchen." Though initially distressed, the Dragon King realizes that each of his sons' interests can be parlayed into useful employment: his noisy son, for example, can keep musical instruments sounding "loud and true," and his sharp-eyed son can protect homes from danger, and so on. Although the story has a repetitive structure typical of folktales for younger readers, the text is long and requires a certain level of sophistication to make the conceptual leap between each son's role in the story and its corresponding significance in Chinese iconography (each of the nine scenarios concludes with a cut-paper example of real-world dragon ornamentation, much of which can evidently be traced to this legend). Even readers older than the traditional picture-book audience, though, may find that they lack the cultural context to fully appreciate the esoteric aspects of Young's treatment. The ink-wash portraits of the exuberant young dragons are probably reason enough to buy this book; readers of any age will marvel at how much Young can accomplish with just a few sinuous strokes of his brush. Jennifer Mattson
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- PublisherAtheneum Books for Young Readers
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0689851847
- ISBN 13 9780689851841
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages32
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