Posts Tagged ‘Ed Young’
Way Back Wednesday Essential Classic: Celebrating 75 Years of Caldecott Awards!
Seven Blind Mice By Ed Young Ever hear the phrase that there are two side to every story and the truth is somewhere in the middle? How about SEVEN sides to a story? In Ed Young’s Caldecott Honor winner of 1993, “Seven Blind Mice”, he has constructed a beauty of a fable with…
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The Emperor and the Kite By Jane Yolen; illustrated by Ed Young As we head into the second week of the fifteen day festival celebrating the Chinese New Year and 2012’s Year of the Dragon, I find Jane Yolen’s The Emperor and the Kite both timely and an essential picture book classic waiting to be…
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Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story From China By Ed Young This 1989 Caldecott Award winning Chinese version of the tale of Little Red Riding Hood comes from an ancient oral tradition that may be over a thousand years old. The story of the small girl eluding a “big bad wolf” crosses cultural…
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