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Made in China
A paper butterfly is lost and longing for home. A dragon offers her a ride home on his back — if she can solve the riddle “What was made in China 2000 years ago and is still used today?” To find the answer, she flits far and wide, to Beijing’s Forbidden City, to the Great Wall, and finally to the walled city of Xi’an. Just when she begins to despair, she meets another paper butterfly, who claims to have the riddle’s answer. Is it the right one? Lively collage illustrations introduce carp, pagodas, stone lions, and other elements of Chinese culture and family life.
- GenresPicture Books
32 pages, Paperback
Published December 19, 2006
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August 8, 2018
Made in China is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Deborah Nash, which focus on a a paper butterfly trying to find its home and along the way discovering the many beautiful things that China has to offer.
The text is simplistic and straightforward. It follows a lost butterfly on its way home to Ming, the boy who had forgotten it while playing. The main story is written in a different font and is non-linear, while facts and trivia of China is printed in normal text, while not rather difficult reading the flowing text – it may prove difficult for those who are used to linear text. The illustration is wonderfully depicted and is rather apropos to the text. It is reminiscent of Chinese Folk Art and has a wonderful map of China and a temple to make one's own paper butterfly.
The premise of the book is rather straightforward. A lost paper butterfly has to answer a dragon's riddle in order to find its way home. To find an answer, Paper Butterfly flits everywhere from the great city of Beijing and its Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China, and all over China – just to find an answer to the riddle and the chance to find its way home on the back of a dragon.
All in all, Made in China is wonderful children's book about the many wonderful things that China has to offer from the Great Wall of China to the invention of paper and many things in between.
The text is simplistic and straightforward. It follows a lost butterfly on its way home to Ming, the boy who had forgotten it while playing. The main story is written in a different font and is non-linear, while facts and trivia of China is printed in normal text, while not rather difficult reading the flowing text – it may prove difficult for those who are used to linear text. The illustration is wonderfully depicted and is rather apropos to the text. It is reminiscent of Chinese Folk Art and has a wonderful map of China and a temple to make one's own paper butterfly.
The premise of the book is rather straightforward. A lost paper butterfly has to answer a dragon's riddle in order to find its way home. To find an answer, Paper Butterfly flits everywhere from the great city of Beijing and its Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China, and all over China – just to find an answer to the riddle and the chance to find its way home on the back of a dragon.
All in all, Made in China is wonderful children's book about the many wonderful things that China has to offer from the Great Wall of China to the invention of paper and many things in between.
January 24, 2014
This book provides a lot of facts on China for the people reading it. It wasn't enough to keep my children's attention and when asked if they liked it they said it was ok. I think they would enjoy it more if they were older
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