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Shepard, Aaron

The Crystal Heart: A Vietnamese Legend

32 pp. | Atheneum | September, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-689-81551-4 $$16.00
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Joseph Daniel Fiedler. Mi Nuong, daughter of "a great mandarin," falls in love with the fisherman she hears singing as he rows by. She imagines he's young and handsome, but when she learns he's a lowly fisherman, she laughs in his face. He pines for her, and when he dies his heart turns to crystal. The lyrically told story (at times sentimental) is accompanied by stiff illustrations.
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