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Tibet Through the Red Box (Caldecott Honor Book) Hardcover HC 3rd Print, Ex Lib
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Item specifics
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- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780374375522
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374375526
ISBN-13
9780374375522
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1094122
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tibet Through the Red Box
Number of Pages
64 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
People & Places / Asia, Family / Parents
Illustrator
Yes, SiS, Peter
Genre
Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
20.1 Oz
Item Length
11.3 in
Item Width
11 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Juvenile Audience
LCCN
97-050175
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"When Sis opens the red lacquered box that has sat on his father's dresser for decades he finds the diary his father kept when he was lost in Tibet in the mid 1950s...As the story of the elder SΒ°s's journey into the heart of Tibet unfolds...SΒ°s begins to come to terms with what the loss of his father for that time meant to him, then and always." --Booklist "Extraordinary." --Starred,Publishers Weekly, When Sis opens the red lacquered box that has sat on his father's dresser for decades he finds the diary his father kept when he was lost in Tibet in the mid 1950s...As the story of the elder SΒ°s's journey into the heart of Tibet unfolds...SΒ°s begins to come to terms with what the loss of his father for that time meant to him, then and always., "When Sis opens the red lacquered box that has sat on his father's dresser for decades he finds the diary his father kept when he was lost in Tibet in the mid 1950s...As the story of the elder SΒ°s's journey into the heart of Tibet unfolds...SΒ°s begins to come to terms with what the loss of his father for that time meant to him, then and always." -- Booklist "Extraordinary." -- Starred, Publishers Weekly, "When Sis opens the red lacquered box that has sat on his father's dresser for decades he finds the diary his father kept when he was lost in Tibet in the mid 1950s...As the story of the elder SΒ°s's journey into the heart of Tibet unfolds...SΒ°s begins to come to terms with what the loss of his father for that time meant to him, then and always." --Booklist "Extraordinary." --Starred, Publishers Weekly, "When Sis opens the red lacquered box that has sat on his father's dresser for decades he finds the diary his father kept when he was lost in Tibet in the mid 1950s...As the story of the elder SΒ°s's journey into the heart of Tibet unfolds...SΒ°s begins to come to terms with what the loss of his father for that time meant to him, then and always." -- Booklist "Extraordinary." --Starred, Publishers Weekly
Grade From
Second Grade
Grade To
Sixth Grade
Dewey Decimal
951/.5
Synopsis
A father's diary, an artist's memoir. By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys. While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which was later locked in a red box. We weren't allowed to touch the box. The stories I heard as a little boy faded to a hazy dream, and my drawings from that time make no sense. I cannot decipher them. It was not until I myself had gone far, far away and received the message from my father that I became interested in the red box again . . . In New York, Peter Sis receives a letter from his father. "The Red Box is now yours," it says. The brief note worries him and pulls him back to Prague, where the contents of the red box explain the mystery of his father's long absence during the 1950s. Czechoslovakia was behind the iron curtain; Vladimir Sis, a documentary filmmaker of considerable talent, was drafted into the army and sent to China to teach filmmaking. He left his wife, daughter, and young son, Peter, thinking he would be home for Christmas. Two Christmases would pass before he was heard from again: Vladimir Sis was lost in Tibet. He met with the Dalai Lama; he witnessed China's invasion of Tibet. When he returned to Prague, he dared not talk to his friends about all he had seen and experienced. But over and over again he told Peter about his Tibetan adventures. Weaving their two stories together - that of the father lost in Tibet and that of the small boy in Prague, lost without his father - Sis draws from his father's diary and from his own recollections of his father's incredible tales to reach a spiritual homecoming between father and son. With his sublime pictures, inspired by Tibetan Buddhist art and linking history to memory, Peter Sis gives us an extraordinary book - a work of singular artistry and rare imagination. This title has Common Core connections. Tibet Through the Red Box is a 1999 Caldecott Honor Book and the winner of the 1999 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Special Citation.
LC Classification Number
DS786.S548 1998
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