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Type of bind: School & Library Type of bind
EAN num: 9780613090896
ISBN number: 0613090896
Label: Topeka Bindery
Manufacturer: Topeka Bindery
Quantity: 1
Printing Date: 1999-10
Publishing house: Topeka Bindery
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 2618149
Studio: Topeka Bindery
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The author retells a story heard as a child, one of many invented to explain the landscape on willow pattern china, popular for the last 200 years. In this, two young Chinese lovers are punished by one's cruel mandarin father.
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A life long collector of willow patterned china and all things willow, this beautiful retelling of the "legend" told in the beloved pattern is lovely and fun. The watercolour wash illustrations with story elements interposed over the pattern bring a unique vision of a tale lost in time.
The story entered the language through the King Aurthur legends with the tales of Tristan and Isolde. It was much later adapted to the pattern of the beloved china and illustrates the journalistic adage, "If the facts interfere with the story, go with the story."
Allan Drummond's THE WILLOW PATTERN STORY is one of the finest examples of story telling, which ends with the question. "What does it mean?"
For us it means all of our stories contain some reference to the universal use of willow patterned china.
Nash Black, author of WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS and SINS OF THE FATHERS.
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This book is a wonderful book, especially for children with moms (like me!) who collect and serve meals on Blue Willow china! My daughters, 7 and 4, love this story and request that I "tell it by heart" at bedtime. They also carefully look at our dishes and retell the story to each other, finding all the characters and locations on the plate. The illustrations are lovely. This is a very special book.
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