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The Magic Brocade

A Tale of China

By Shepard, Aaron & Li, Xiaojun

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No brocades are more lovely or lifelike than the ones the widow weaves to sell at the marketplace. But so fine it is that the fairies of the palace send a wind to carry it off for themselves. Knowling his mother will die without her beloved creation, the widow’s son starts out after it. But the way to the fairy palace lies over Fiery Mountain and across the Icy Sea. Even if he gets there, will the fairies give up the brocade? This popular Chinese folktale will enchant young and old as the widow and her son find their way to a happiness beyond their dreams.

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ISBN
978-1-57227-064-0
Publisher
Pan Asian Publications (USA)


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on July 1, 2001

Gr 1-4 An old widow, famous for weaving lifelike pictures into silk brocade, lives beneath a mountain in China. She supports herself and her son, Chen, by selling her crafts-until the day she becomes obsessed with re-creating an ideal landscape depicted in a painting she finds in the marketplace. She spends three years at her loom, while her son chops wood to earn money. At the moment the brocade is finished, a wind carries it away. Chen promises his heartbroken mother that he will recover it, and immediately sets ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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