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Anno's China
Anno's China
By: Mitsumasa Anno
SKU: 9781893103641
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- By: Mitsumasa Anno
- Pages: 60
- SKU: 9781893103641
- Media: Paperback
- Reading level: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
Description
Allow Anno to be your guide to China. Taking his inspiration from a 12th-century Chinese scroll, Anno leads readers up the Yellow River through delightfully detailed watercolors, exploring a vast and varied land where calligraphers bestow good fortune, birds fish for men, and dragons dance. Stand with Anno on the Great Wall, visit bustling villages where the streets are waterways and everyone, even horses and bulls, travels by boat.
Anno’s representation of time is elastic, moving fluidly between medieval China and the present day. Detailed notes at the back of the book explain Anno’s journey and illuminate the many details hidden in each scene, often drawing comparisons between Chinese and Japanese culture, while still leaving plenty for readers to discover on their own. A Kirkus Star book.
About the Author
Mitsumasa Anno was born in 1926 in Tsuwano, a small town nestled in the mountains of western Japan. Growing up surrounded by peaks and ocean, he developed a longing to see what lay beyond his isolated world. “Because my world was cut off from the outside world, first by the mountains and then by the ocean, the desire to go and see what lay on the other side grew stronger,” he once said. That curiosity never left him. After serving in the Japanese army during World War II, he spent ten years teaching mathematics in Tokyo. In 1968, he began his professional career as a picture book artist, bringing the same passion for learning that shaped his teaching to his artistic work.
Anno’s work earned him some of the highest honors in children’s literature, including the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1984, multiple first prizes for graphic excellence at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and selection for the New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. In 2001, the Mitsumasa Anno Museum opened in his hometown of Tsuwano, designed by Anno himself, as a place where children could come and explore science, math, and imagination firsthand. A lover of travel and culture, Anno believed that beneath all our differences, the heart of every human being holds the same inherent value, and his books reflect that belief on every page.
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