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Summary: Ping....this duck is tops.
Review: What a sweet story about a sweet little duckling! Thanks to my sister for bringing it to my attention. Long live Ping!
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: When I was a kid growing up in the south, I used to read this book over and over. That was in the 1960's, when the Chinese, who's side we were on during the war, were a people we were supposed to hate, and the Japanese, who we hated during the war, were a people we were supposed to like. Nevermind all those reruns of anti Japanese war movies that were still playing on TV at the time. The wise-eyed boat, the fishing birds with the rings around their necks, the boy with the wacky hairdo and peculiar barrel tied to his back. The hand-made wicker basket and complete absence of anything material or useless. It humanized Asians for me in a way that was not only healthy, but induced a curiosity of the region and its peoples that I have still yet to satisfy, even after living for 18 years of my adult life in Northeast Asia. (Maybe I'm still running away from that dreaded spank!) Every time I see those Peking ducks strung up in those shop windows in Hongkong I can't help but think of Ping and his mother and his father and two sisters and three brothers and eleven aunts and seven uncles and forty-two cousins. Read Ping to your kids. It just might change their lives!!
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Summary: Ping will capitvate young readers with his dilemma.
Review: Young Ping learns that often it's better to take your punishment than to try to outrun it. His adventures take him through a loney, sometimes frightening day on the Yangze river as he searches for the "wise-eyed" boat where he lives with his family. The beautifullly drawn illustrations, "fun to say" words", and repition will make this book one your kids will want to come back to over and over again.
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