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El Chino by Allen Say
25.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
The true story of a Chinese boy who, on the advice of his father--"In America, you can be anything you want to be"--grows up to become a bullfighter. "Say fashions a first-person narrative into a resonant biography of an intriguing anomaly. . . .
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
25.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Through compelling reminiscences of his grandfather's life in America and Japan, Allen Say gives us a poignant acount of a family's unique cross-cultural experience. He warmly conveys his own love for his two countries, and the strong and constant desire to be in both places at once. "The immigrant expe ...Show more
The Lost Lake by Allen Say
25.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: Sandpiper books
Luke and his father, who is disgusted by the tourists surrounding the once secluded lake of his childhood, hike deeper into the wilderness to find a "lost lake" of their own. "Say's watercolor paintings, embracing the many moods of the natural world, . . . really command attention. Readers will feel tha ...Show more
Tree of Cranes by Allen Say
25.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
As a young Japanese boy recovers from a bad chill, his mother busily folds origami paper into delicate silver cranes in preparation for the boy's very first Christmas.
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