| The Children of China: An Artist's Journey Contributor(s): Zhang, Song Nan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0887764487 ISBN-13: 9780887764486 Publisher: Tundra Books (NY) OUR PRICE: $10.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: Before coming to Canada, while he was still an art teacher in Beijing, Song Nan Zhang traveled from Inner Mongolia east, south, and north to find and paint unusual scenes of Chinese family life. Here are the children who grow up in the saddle with their nomadic parents or become as agile as the mountain goats they tend. A boy plays chess on the ground with his shepherd grandfather. A teenager tends her father's pottery shop. At festivals a child plays hide-and-seek, behind yellow parasols, and stilt dancers wait to compete. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - Asia - Juvenile Nonfiction | Family - Multigenerational - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - United States - Asian American |
| Dewey: 951 |
| Lexile Measure: 990 |
| Physical Information: 0.15" H x 8.96" W x 9.42" (0.33 lbs) 32 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Chinese - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 13589 Reading Level: 6.1 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 1.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Before coming to Canada, while he was still an art teacher in Beijing, Song Nan Zhang traveled from Inner Mongolia east, south, and north to find and paint unusual scenes of Chinese family life. Here are the children who grow up in the saddle with their nomadic parents or become as agile as the mountain goats they tend. A boy plays chess on the ground with his shepherd grandfather. A teenager tends her father's pottery shop. At festivals a child plays hide-and-seek, behind yellow parasols, and stilt dancers wait to compete. |