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32 pp.
| Lee/Shen's
| June, 2018
|
TradeISBN 978-1-88500-890-9$17.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Colleen Kong-Savage.
An invented story posits the origin of a sixteenth-century Korean warship. Yi Sun-sin (a real person, who later became an admiral) notices his turtle's resiliency and enters his pet in the king's contest for a new battleship design. He wins, and a ship is built with a protective covering reminiscent of a turtle's shell. Textured collages capture emotion and evoke setting; an afterword provides more information. Bib.