The Master Swordsman & The Magic Doorway: Two Legends from Ancient China
by Alice Provensen
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In two original stories set in ancient China, Little Chiu masters the sword and Mu Chi escapes death through his marvelous painting.Tags
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'The Master Swordsman & The Magic Doorway: Two Legends from Ancient China' is a retelling of the two aforementioned myths. Alice Provensen is the illustrator and the one who reimagined both The Master Swordsman and The Magic Doorway. Every culture and its people have their own legends that helps to keep their ways passed down to each generation. For others unfamiliar with the culture it shows us what is important to them. The Master Swordsman about the ancient tale of a boy from a terrorized village seeking help from a master. He is the only one who steps up and goes on a long journey in search for this master. The master tells him he will not train him, but he can use help in his chores. The master is constantly and randomly throws show more objects the boy's way. The boy is constantly hit by these items for years until one day he learns to anticipate and dodge them. The boy learned what it meant to never give up. He learns more than what he had originally come to the master for and learns about why it is strong to not have to always use force. The Magic Doorway is about a famous painter in all of ancient China, Mu Chi, brought to an emperor's palace to paint his hearts desire using a gigantic canvas, which is a wall longer than a hundred feet. Mu Chi spends years on this piece and he'show the emperor loves his art so much that he wants no one else to have this kind of work repeated for them, only himself. He plans to kill the painter once finished, but in the beautiful painting of mountains, streams, trees and animals, that looks so real it all looks to come alive, Mu Chi leaves a door. Mu Chi is not willing to let someone as selfish as the emperor to kill him just so he can show of the painter's masterpiece. He escapes through this magical door he's painted on his living tapestry and is able to continue spreading beauty and magic throughout ancient China. show less
Book Description: NY: Simon & Schuster, 2001. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Oblong. MISPRINTED copy
-->>This book is a misprint. The cover of this fine book is printed upside down and backward to the text inside the book.
-->>This book is a misprint. The cover of this fine book is printed upside down and backward to the text inside the book.
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Alice Provensen was born Alice Rose Twitchell in Chicago, Illinois on August 14, 1918. She took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the University of California at Los Angeles before finding a job at the animation studio of Walter Lantz. She met her future husband, Martin Provensen, while he was working on a Navy training film during show more World War II. They married in 1944 and relocated to Washington D.C., where she worked as a graphic artist for the Office of Strategic Services. They later moved to New York and became known as an author-illustrator picture book team. They created many award-winning picture books including A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Inexperienced Travelers by Nancy Willard, which won a 1982 Caldecott Honor, and The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, which won the 1984 Caldecott Medal. Their other books included A Year at Maple Hill Farm, Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm, Karen's Curiosity, Karen's Opposites, The Fuzzy Duckling, Katie the Kitten, The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown, and A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. They also created Tony the Tiger, which was the advertising symbol of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. She continued working after her husband's death in 1987. Her books included The Buck Stops Here: The Presidents of the United States, A Day in the Life of Murphy, Punch in New York, and Klondike Gold. She died on April 23, 2018 at the age of 99. show less
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- The Master Swordsman & The Magic Doorway: Two Legends from Ancient China
- Original publication date
- 2001
- Important places
- China
- First words
- A long time ago, far away in China, a group of poor farmers lived in a small village.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He bowed in reverence to the surprising masterpiece of Mu Chi.
- Original language
- English
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