The
Story of Paper, Hardcover, English, Book,
Ying Chang Compestine, Yongsheng Xuan, Kindergarten - 3rd Grade,
9780823417056,
$16.95
Author : Ying Chang
Compestine, Illustrator : Yongsheng Xuan
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
The Story of Paper
The
Story of Paper, Hardcover, English, Book,
Ying Chang Compestine, Yongsheng Xuan, Kindergarten - 3rd Grade,
9780823417056,
$16.95
After
the Kang brothers get in trouble at school, they devise a way to make paper,
which will make things easier for both their teacher and themselves. Includes a
historical note and a recipe for home-made paper.
Listen to
Vienna Rose read The Story of Paper to you. A marvelous example of the magical encounter
between a child and books that we wish for all children.
School Library
Journal : PreSchool - Grade 3-The irrepressible Kang boys are now credited with
the invention of paper. The three brothers struggle to concentrate on their math
as they write their answers on the ground with sticks, an early Chinese method
of doing schoolwork, but playing with bugs distracts them. Annoyed, their
teacher prints a note to their parents on each of their hands and admonishes
them to hold their arms in the air so the ink will dry without smudging. Ting,
Pan, and K—ai try to hide the messages as they race through the village, but
everyone they pass asks to read what the schoolmaster has written. Their shame
leads to a search for something better to write on. While helping Mama make mash
for rice cakes, K—ai suggests that they soak their mother's silk sewing scraps
the same way. After several days of waiting and vigorous mashing, the boys pour
the pulp into the trays used to drain mashed rice. Now they have an invention
that will keep their teacher's comments a secret from prying eyes. Cut-paper
illustrations are a fitting accompaniment to this amusing account of the
discovery of papermaking. With bold black outlines and vivid coloration against
a white, marbled background, the artwork captures the action as the boys
exercise their ingenuity. Endnotes include information about the origin of paper
and simple instructions for making it in a mason jar.
Booklist : K-Gr. 3. The ingenious Kang brothers, seen last in The Story of
Kites [BKL Ap 15 03], return for another entrepreneurial adventure.
Attending school in a prepaper era, the boys work out their schoolwork with
sticks in the dirt, and when they misbehave, their teacher writes notes to their
parents on their hands, where all their neighbors can see. Hoping to come up
with a more discreet solution for conveying their teacher's messages, the boys
are inspired while making flat sheets of rice cakes for their parents.
Substituting leaves and rags for rice, they create sheets of a new
material--paper--that makes its way to the emperor and sends the Kang family
into the papermaking business. Children may have a hard time following the
story's technical details and even some of the logic, but this title offers a
starting point to introduce paper's intriguing origins, and the brothers'
reversal from troublemakers to heroes will appeal to many young people, as will
Xuan's colorful, expertly crafted cut-paper illustrations. A factual author's
note and a recipe for homemade paper close the book.
English
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