Tai Chi Morning: Snapshots of China Contributor(s): Grimes, Nikki (Author), Young, Ed (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0812627075 ISBN-13: 9780812627077 Publisher: Cricket Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: January 2004 Annotation: In 1988, award-winning poet Nikki Grimes spent three weeks along the east coast of China. At the same time, artist and China native Ed Young was there writing and sketching his impressions in a personal journal. Both observed signs of the old China alongside the new, and both set what they saw on paper. Photos. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2003016506 |
Age Level: 11-15 |
Grade Level: 6-10 |
Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6.08" W x 8.22" L (0.58 lbs) 64 pages |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 01/01/2004 pg. 36 PW Notes and Reprints 01/12/2004 pg. 56 Booklist 03/01/2004 pg. 1186 School Library Journal 05/01/2004 pg. 168 Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2004 pg. 459 - Recommended, Satisfactory Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2004 pg. 459 - Recommended, Satisfactory Publishers Weekly 01/12/2004 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 84011 Reading Level: 5.9 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 1.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Tai Chi Morning is simply, as the title implies, snapshots of China seen through the lens of a poet's eye. It is a collection of moments, a personal record of an outsider's first experience of China. (From the introduction) In 1988, poet Nikki Grimes spent three weeks along the east coast of China. Like any curious tourist, she observed and touched, sniffed and tasted. But unlike most, she poured those sensations into poetry. Distilling the delight and confusion of an African American traveler thousands of miles from home, her poems take a thoughtful, sometimes playful, look at an outsider's sense of self. As it happened, around the same time, artist Ed Young was visiting his native China--as always, writing and sketching his impressions in a personal journal. Like Nikki, Ed witnessed signs of the old China alongside the new. Like the poet, the artist caught hold of them and set them down on paper. Through Nikki's wry but penetrating verse and Ed's deft, revealing drawings, in Tai Chi Morning the journeys of a visiting American poet and an artist returning home unwind side by side in counterpoint. |
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