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The Rainbow People
Contributor(s): Yep, Laurence (Author), Wiesner, David (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 0064404412     ISBN-13: 9780064404419
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 1992
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Annotation: 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Asian American
- Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - Adaptations
- Juvenile Fiction | Legends, Myths, Fables - Asian
Dewey: 398.2
LCCN: 89021203
Age Level: 8-12
Grade Level: 3-7
Lexile Measure: 680(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.08" W x 7.62" L (0.32 lbs) 208 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Booklist 11/01/1992 pg. 503
Publishers Weekly 08/17/1992
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 30711
Reading Level: 4.8   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 6.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Culled from 69 stories collected in a 1930s] WPA project, these 20] tales are organized into sections with themes like 'Tricksters' or 'Virtues and Vices, ' each with a thoughtful introduction placing the individual stories in the context of feelings and background of the original tellers. Yep's telling is vigorous, often poetic, imbued with earthy humor and realism touched with fatalism. A handsomely designed collection. --K.

Notable Children's Books of 1989 (ALA)
The USA Through Children's Books 1990 (ALA)
1989 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
1990 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
1989 Children's Editors' Choices (BL)
Notable 1989 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
Children's Books of 1989 (Library of Congress)
1989 Children's Books (NY Public Library)
The Best Books 1989 (Parents Magazine)


Contributor Bio(s): Yep, Laurence: -

Laurence Yep is the acclaimed author of more than sixty books for young people and a winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. His illustrious list of novels includes the Newbery Honor Books Dragonwings and Dragon's Gate; The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, a Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee; and The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island, which he cowrote with his niece, Dr. Kathleen S. Yep, and was named a New York Public Library's "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing" and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book.

Mr. Yep grew up in San Francisco, where he was born. He attended Marquette University, graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and received his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He lives in Pacific Grove, California, with his wife, the writer Joanne Ryder.

Wiesner, David: -

David Wiesner has been awarded the Caldecott Medal three times, for Flotsam in 2007, The Three Pigs in 2002, and Tuesday in 1992. He has received the Caldecott Honor twice, for Sector 7 in 2000 and Free Fall in 1989. Free Fall is the first title he both authored and illustrated. His cover art now graces The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. Among many other accolades, David has been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.


 
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