Huy Voun Lee, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6205-2
Lee's (At the Beach; In the Snow) word and number primer has all the festive ebullience of a Chinese New Year's dragon. Each cream-colored, double-page spread serves as a backdrop for elegant, boldly-colored cut paper figures, a punchy number-verb...
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Huy Voun Lee, Author, Huy Youn Lee, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5822-2
Cut-paper collages illustrate young Xiao Ming's day at the beach, during which he learns to write Chinese characters in the sand. ""A remarkably unified effort,"" said PW in a starred review. ""Everything works together to create a flawless picture...
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Huy Voun Lee, Author, Huy Voun Lee, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3172-0
As Xiao Ming and his mother walk through the winter forest, the fresh snow-white and smooth as paper-inspires an educational game. While his mother scratches Chinese characters with a stick, Xiao Ming guesses what the symbols represent. Through...
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Huy Voun Lee, Author, Huy Voun Lee, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2768-6
The backdrop is a day by the sea, the set design features impeccably executed cut-paper collages, and the mild drama centers on young Xiao Ming, who is learning to write Chinese. His mother, wisely referring to the various activities around them,...
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Huy Voun Lee, Author, Huy Voun Lee, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4128-6
Harmony is the effect Huy achieves in her playful collage cutouts of blooming park scenes. As in At the Beach and In the Snow, Huy fluidly weaves a lesson in drawing Chinese characters into a mother-son outing. Young Xiao Ming, sporting a baseball...
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