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Lee, Jeanne M.
2 Reviews
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K-3
In a story set in fifteenth-century China, dumplings serve to bring together three people--a homeless girl, an old hunchbacked woman, and an enslaved ship's carpenter--whose experiences have been painfully bitter. Lee's delicately detailed art balances landscapes and domestic scenes; the story's action is dramatically paced across successive panels resembling Chinese screen paintings.
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2002
(3)
K-3
Six Jataka tales are retold here in a plain, conversational style complemented by almost severely simple linocut illustrations. In a framework that connects the tales in a natural manner, the stories are told by a statue of Buddha to a group of animals in a temple seeking shelter from a monsoon. The unabashedly spiritual approach of Lee's retellings of these religious stories--often secularized when adapted--is laudable.
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