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4.17 AVERAGE
4.17 AVERAGE
Having seen the art of paper cutting in action on one of my trips to China, I adore the illustrations in this book! I definitely need to add a copy of this to my collection.
My son's favorite. Illistrations are to die for. The story is really great, even if the moral is a little corny. I'm glad I own it.
A fun story set in medieval China, with an artists who is chosen to face a destructive dragon to save his village (using the power of Art and Love and stuff like that). It's a fun story. But it is not a particularly authentic one, and I feel like it is pretending to be one, so I knocked it down from 5/5 to 4/5 for that . . .
This is a lovely story that is really beautifully illustrated and utilizes the interactive nature of fold-out pages very well.
What is a bit weird about it is that the story seems very Western in structure (down to dragons who pillage towns. I'm nothing near an expert on Chinese dragons but I'm pretty sure there's more of a difference there?). There's nothing clearly offensive or disrespectful in this, it just seems odd in something set in China.
What is a bit weird about it is that the story seems very Western in structure (down to dragons who pillage towns. I'm nothing near an expert on Chinese dragons but I'm pretty sure there's more of a difference there?). There's nothing clearly offensive or disrespectful in this, it just seems odd in something set in China.
Gorgeous illustrations, innovative design with the fold-out pages (although ours got nested incorrectly and I ended up reading a later page ahead of an earlier page). I love the tale of ingenuity, discovering the depths of one's own strength, and learning what's truly important.