Ed Young, Author . S&S/Atheneum $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-85184-1
Caldecott Medalist Young delivers some of his most exciting illustrations since Lon Po Po
in this traditional Chinese tale about a Dragon King with nine sons. Unsettling rumors about his sons reach the Dragon King: one is said to be extraordinarily
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Ed Young. Little, Brown, $18 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-23089-6
Young (The House Baba Built), writing in tribute to his late wife, builds a series of couplets that reveal human passion reflected in the magnificence of the natural world. "Should you be a river," he starts, "I'll race your rapids downstream."...
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Ed Young, Author HarperOne $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-025356-1
With his shadowy abstract pastels, Young (Lon Po Po) puts his singular stamp on the story of creation. A thoughtful adaptation of the King James version of Genesis appears as stark and powerful text on solid black left-hand pages in each spread. The
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Ed Young, Author Philomel Books $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-22731-8
In this ambitious but hazy picture book, Caldecott Medalist Young relies on a string of ambiguities to deliver an unequivocal message. Soon after the young scholar Ho Kuan protests his parents' plan to kill the ants that invade their rice storehouse,
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Ed Young, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-021301-5
The Caldecott Medalist's eloquent, impressionistic artistry lights up the pages of this Native American creation tale. The story begins when the earth is young; a place of great beauty, it is devoid of animals or men. A spirit person arrives and...
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Ed Young, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $20 (52p) ISBN 978-0-15-201453-7
In this felicitous picture book, Caldecott Medalist Young uses a Chinese variant of the Mouse Bride folktale as a metaphor for the difference between ""looking"" that notices only the appearance of strength, and ""seeing"" that recognizes real power.
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Ed Young, Author Philomel Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-21969-6
A familiar lesson in the ironies of fate finds an emotive and magnetic voice in this Chinese folktale. Eager to learn whom he will marry, Wei Gu seeks counsel from a spiritual matchmaker, who points out an infant carried on the back of a vegetable-mo
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Ed Young, Author Henry Holt & Company $8.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6049-2
Animals race for a place in the Zodiac in this ""complex and well-told"" Chinese folktale, said PW, praising the ""striking"" design and dark, scumbled charcoal and pastel art. Ages 3-7. (Nov.)
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Ed Young, Author Philomel Books $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-399-22261-0
In a stunning celebration of color Caldecott medalist Young ( Lon Po Po ) offers a vibrant variation on the fable of the blind men trying to identify an elephant. Seven differently-hued blind mice approach the ``strange Something'' in their midst on
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Ed Young, Author . Roaring Brook/Porter $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59643-363-2
Caldecott Medal–winner Young's enchanting story about an orphaned bald eagle discovered by a Native American boy is set against a vast landscape of canyon, mountain and spruce, as spare as the author's text (“An abandoned egg....
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Ed Young, Author . Philomel $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-23625-9
Young's (Lon Po Po
) mixed-media artwork is stunning in this exquisitely designed book, but the often confusing, moralistic adaptation of a Nepalese folktale may be too inaccessible for some readers. As the ending suggests, the book tells how
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Ed Young, Author . Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205023-8
In this retelling of a Chinese folktale, a wise man loses his horse and he utters what becomes a refrain, "You know, it may not be such a bad thing." The horse returns with a mare; the mare throws his son, etc. until the wise man is proven...
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Ed Young, Author . Philomel $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-23624-2
Young's (Lon Po Po) adaptation of a Sufi wisdom tale has ragged edges, but his collage illustrations frequently achieve a nearly transcendent lightness and simplicity. A boy seeks knowledge from a Grand Master, who tells the boy he needs to...
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Ed Young, Author, Ed Young, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2977-2
In this intriguing picture book, Caldecott Medalist Young (Seven Blind Mice) retells a Chinese folktale about the origins of the zodiac. The Jade Emperor of Heaven invites all the animals in the land to participate in a race through the thickest...
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Ed Young, Author, Ed Young, Illustrator . Philomel $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-24339-4
Young (Beyond the Great Mountains
) immortalizes the adoption of his and his wife's younger daughter in the pages of this touching tale. Narrated by Tonia, his elder daughter, the story initially unspools in somewhat of a disjointed verse with a
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Ed Young, Author, Ed Young, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82010-6
A Caldecott Medalist retells a traditional fable about an old man and his grandson who listen to everyone they meet, instead of following their own instincts, as they walk to town to sell their donkey. Ages 5-8. (Apr.)
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Ed Young, Author, Ed Young, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-027919-6
Caldecott Medalist Young (Lon Po Po) opts for elegance in this deceptively simple adaptation of Chinese myth. In piquant phrases and minimalist collages, he summarizes the antics of the Monkey King, a trickster hero. Monkey has learned ""the art of...
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Ed Young, Author, Ed Young, Illustrator . Chronicle $17.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-8118-4343-0
Young's (Lon Po Po
) extraordinary "visual poem" is so splendidly conceived and executed that it takes many readings to reveal its richness. Its sophisticated nature may make it a book more suitable for an older audience. In this concise
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Ed Young, Author, Darrell Young, Author Philomel Books $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-22683-0
The tiny triumphs over the mighty in this distillation of a Chinese folktale. Little Plum is born to an older, childless couple, whose desperate wish for a son ``even if he were only as big as a plum seed'' is granted quite literally. The boy soon...
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Ed Young, Author, Tracey Adams, Author, Paula Wiseman, Editor Harcourt Children's Books $18 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201016-4
Both text and art are elegantly spare in Young's (Lon Po Po) newest retelling of a Chinese folktale, which may be among the Caldecott Medalist's finest works. Sai, introduced as a wise man, loses his horse; when people arrive to comfort him, he...
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Steve Halliday, Author, Ed Young, Author, Ed Young, Joint Author . WaterBrook $12.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-57856-317-3
Halliday and Young, whose previous collaborations have focused on Jesus Christ as "wonderful counselor" and "mighty God," now turn their attention to Jesus as "everlasting father." This, of course, presents a bit of a...
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Ed Young, Author Ekare $8.99 (0p) ISBN 978-980-257-255-7
PreS-Gr 3-This is a translation of the popular book that tells the tale of how seven blind mice have different versions of what is in front of them, depending on what they feel, until the last mouse brings consensus and together they conclude it...
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Ed Young. Little, Brown, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-07628-9
In this picture book memoir by the Caldecott Medalist, which opens in 1931 (the year he was born), the stock market has crashed, and China is in turmoil. Young’s father, Baba, persuades a landowner in Shanghai to let him construct a huge brick house
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Ed Young. Philomel, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-17278-6
Young (Should You Be a River) weaves an elegant cautionary fable about Lord Cat, who lives “high above everyone” in a lofty pagoda. Young’s evocative, abstract paper collages convey the vulgar opulence—and later the terrifying scarcity—of Lord Cat’s
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Barbara DaCosta, illus. by Ed Young. Little, Brown, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-29936-7
DaCosta and Young pay spirited tribute to Moby-Dick, incorporating a twist that recalls their previous collaboration, Nighttime Ninja. In a closing note, they explain that the story began with Young’s dramatic mixed-media collages; DaCosta then...
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Stephen Cowan, illus. by Ed Young, photos by John Hudack. Philomel, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-51382-7
Cowan and Caldecott Medalist Young retell a fable about the rain, the wind, and the sun vying to persuade a young shepherdess to doff her red cap. In collages made of torn paper and photographs by Hudack, Young places the shepherdess and sheep...
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Stephen Cowan, illus. by Ed Young. Philomel, $17.99 (26p) ISBN 978-0-525-51387-2
Cowan reimagines the story of Noah’s Ark, replacing the character of Noah with an old woman who foresees a flood. She brings into her house “all the promises/ that she could think to find./ She gathered them in pairs/ so none were left behind.”...
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Ed and Lisa Young. Zondervan, $27.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-310-36693-5
In this stirring guide, married pastors Ed and Lisa Young (The Creative Marriage) share how they found purpose in faith after their daughter’s sudden death and counsel readers on how they can navigate hardships of their own. According to the authors,
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