Yoon and the Jade Bracelet
Recorvits, Helen
Swiatkowska, Gabi
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
It is Yoons birthday and all she wants is a jump rope so she can play with the other girls in the school yard. Instead, Yoons mother gives her a Korean storybook about a silly girl who is tricked by a tiger. Yoon also receives a jade bracelet that once belonged to her grandmother. The next day at school, a girl offers to teach Yoon how to jump rope, but for a price: she wants to borrow the jade bracelet. When Yoon tries to get her bracelet back, the girl swears it belongs to her. Yoon must use the lessons learned in her storybook and her Shining Wisdom to retrieve the precious keepsake. In this third book featuring Yoon, lush impressionistic dreamscapes evoke a simple and timeless message: it is possible to trick a tiger.
AUTHOR BIO
HELEN RECORVITS and GABI SWIATKOWSKA collaborated on two previous books about Yoon. My Name Is Yoon was named an ALA Notable Book, among other honors, and Ms. Swiatkowska received the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award for her artwork. Ms. Recorvits lives in North Scituate, Rhode Island. Ms. Swiatkowska lives in France.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Swiatkowska captures subtle changes of expression and signs of character in the faces and bodies of her figures." Kirkus ReviewsThis story . . . allows readers to discover aspects of Korean culture and to learn how a Korean-American child reconciles her two worlds. School Library Journal
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0374386897
ISBN(13-digit): 9780374386894
Dewey Decimal: [E]
Library of Congress: 2006048402
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 32
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