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32 pp.
| East West |
February, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-0-9913454-8-9$19.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Gayle Garner Roski.
Ancient Chinese villagers prepare for a festival, suffer a devastating flood, and flee before an enemy force. Fact and fiction collide in this explanation of how a horde of archaeological treasures came to be buried near modern-day Chengdu, China, over three-thousand years ago. Illustrated with stilted paintings, the story's point is obscure until the last few paragraphs and the explanatory author's note.