Book Descriptions
for At the Beach by Huy Voun Lee
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
There's no better place for Xiao Ming to practice his Chinese character writing than in the sand at the beach, where real people and objects mirror the images of the characters he's writing. Cut-paper collages work beautifully to convey abstract symbols through simple, concrete images, from "big" (a man stretched out on the beach) to "good" (mother and child together). (Ages 6-10)
CCBC Choices 1994. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1994. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Xiao Ming is at the beach with his mother. As he draws in the sand, his mother teaches him to write Chinese characters. With ten simple characters, the author introduces children to the beauty and logic of one of the world's oldest picture languages. Features cut-paper illustrations. Full color.
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