About this title: Grandfather Tang and Soo were sitting under a tree playing with their tangram puzzles. They begin a story about fox fairies who can change their shapes; these fairies have to put friendship ahead of pride to save each other. This book features a description of tangram construction.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780517574874ISBN:051757487X
Description: Parker, Robert Andrew. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Picture book. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Date Published: 1997-08-12
ISBN-13:9780517885581ISBN:0517885581
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780517885581ISBN:0517885581
Description: Good. Used item may show library stamps, stickers and marks. Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780517885581ISBN:0517885581
Description: Good. Used item may show library stamps, stickers and marks. Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780517885581ISBN:0517885581
Description: Good. Used item may show library stamps, stickers and marks. Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780517574874ISBN:051757487X
Description: Parker, Robert Andrew. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Picture book. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780517572726ISBN:0517572729
Description: Parker, Robert Andrew. Good. Library binding. Cloth over boards. Picture book. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780517885581ISBN:0517885581
Description: Parker, Robert Andrew. Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Picture book. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780517574874ISBN:051757487X
Description: Parker, Robert Andrew. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Picture book. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780517574874ISBN:051757487X
Description: Parker, Robert Andrew. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Picture book. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780517885581ISBN:0517885581
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780517885581ISBN:0517885581
Description: Parker, Robert Andrew. New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Picture book. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Pictorial Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Children's Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780517574874ISBN:051757487X
Description: Parker, Robert A. (illustrator) Very Good Plus in Very Good Plus jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Pictorial hard cover, children's book, beautiful illustrations. A very nice book with a gift inscription on title page-otherwise clean and unmarked in a nice crisp jacket with very light edge wear, scuffing, and a crease on the inside front fold, now in a new Mylar protective cover. read more
Binding: Near Fine
Publisher: Crown Publishers, NY
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780517574874ISBN:051757487X
Description: Robert Andrew Parker. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Hardcopy Beautifully illustrated book in "like new" condition. "Grandfather tells a story about shape-changing fox fairies who try to best each other until a hunter brings danger to both of them. " read more
The artwork in the story takes two forms: Parker illustrates each page in an impressionist style with watery colors depicting a grandfather telling his grandaughter a folktale. While each page has a full-sized-illustration, the story-within-a-story is also told using the traditional seven-piece tangram shapes to represent two shape-changing foxes who learn the value of friendship over competition.
The folktale is told within the context of a grandfather-granddaughter relationship and unfolds at a good pace to keep the reader/listener engaged and wondering what is going to happen next.
The story is simplistic, but would appeal to children's concerns about friendship and competition and they would definitely enjoy re-creating the tangram images along with the the story. The whole concept of a tangram is not really explained in the text, though, so the person reading the story would need to provide some background information to make the tangram tie-in meaningful.
Related content area: Language Arts (writing) and math(geometry)
Lesson plan: Give each child some paper tangram sets and have them tell/write a short story using the tangrams to illustrate."
"Little Soo begs Grandfather Tang to tell her a story about fox fairies. So grandfather begins a story about Chou and Wu Ling, two fox fairies who can change themselves into different animals. When danger threatens one of the fox fairies, they put their competition aside in order to save each other.
In addition to the lovely Chinese folktale, the addition of tangram design embedded in the text adds a different curricular dimension to this picture book. This book can be used to introduce tangram design for kindergarten and primary grades as students can recreate the animal shapes featured in the story, and then can be challenged to use the seven tangram shapes to create new designs."
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