Night Visitors
by Ed Young
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Retelling of a Chinese folktale in which a young scholar learns respect for all forms of life when he becomes part of an ant colony in a dream.Tags
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Night Visitors is about a young scholar named Ho Kuan who believed that all forms of life were special. When ants infest his family's storeroom and eat all of their grain, instead of drowning them he wants to find a way to seal off the storehouse while still sparing the ants' lives. His father gives him one month to find a way to do so.
The language used was very traditional and the illustrations were very beautiful.
The language used was very traditional and the illustrations were very beautiful.
This is a story about Ho Kuan who is trying to prevent the death of ants that are in his family's food storage. Although he knows that these ants are giving his family problems, he finds a plan to stop his family from killing the ants. When he falls asleep, he learns that he has to come up with a plan and exicute the plan.
This is a story about Ho Kuan and his desire to prevent the death of the ants that are raiding their family’s food storage. He drifts off to sleep while searching for answers to have an adventure, when he awakes he finds the answer he was looking for.
An ancient Chinese tale dated back to the sixth century. Ho Kuan, the son of a farmer, has the challenge of sealing their rice store house from a colony of ants or his father will destroy them. He has an amazing dream which leads him to the ants secret.
Ancient Chinese folktale about a young son named Ho Kuan. Ho Kuan's parents owed a rice storehouse and ants had invaded the store and the gather wanted to kill the. Ho Kuan didn't want to harm them so he was going to "seal the floors and wall." Ho Kuan then researched how to do this and fell asleep. When he began to dream and found out where the ants were coming from.
Ed Young won the 1990 Caldecott for Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China. Young has illustrated over 40 books for children. Available in hardcover and paperback.
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Caldecott Medalist Ed Young is the illustrator of over eighty books for children, seventeen of which he has also written. Born in Tientsin, China in 1931, Ed Young grew up in Shanghai and later moved to Hong Kong. As a young man, he came to the United States on a student visa to study architecture but turned instead to art. Young began his career show more as a commercial artist but found himself looking for something more expansive, expressive, and timeless. He discovered all this, and more, in children's books. Young's quest for challenge and growth are central in his role as illustrator. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Young has since taught at the Pratt Institute, Yale University, Naropa Institute, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. In 1990, his book Lon Po Po was awarded the Caldecott Medal. He has also received two Caldecott Honors - for The Emperor and the Kite and Seven Blind Mice - and was twice nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the highest international recognition given to children's book authors and illustrators who have made a lasting contribution to children's literature. In addition to Ed Young's writing and illustration career, he is also a respected master of t'ai chi and has been teaching students for over 30 years. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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