The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Picture Puffin Books) - Softcover

Dillon, Diane; Paterson, Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140557393 ISBN 13: 9780140557398

Publisher: Puffin, 1995

Synopsis

Wrtitten by Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson with painting by Caldecott winning illustrators Leo and Diane Dillon

A beautiful mandarin duck is captured and caged by a greedy lord who wants to show off the bird's magnificent plumage. But the wild creature pines for his mate. When Yasuko, the kitchen maid, releases the bird against her lord's command, she and the one-eyed servant, Shozo, are sentenced to death. The grateful bird intends to return their kindness, but can he outsmart the cruel lord?

Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Illustration, and a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year.

About this title

About the Author:

Katherine Paterson was born in China in 1932 - she was the middle of five children. Her parents were missionaries and during her childhood the family travelled extensively. After graduating she was a teacher in Virginia and later she travelled to Japan where she lived for four years. Katherine Paterson is twice winner of the Newbery Medal: in 1978 for BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA and in 1981 for JACOB HAVE I LOVED. Katherine now lives in Vermont, USA and loves to teach, read and cook.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140557393
• ISBN 13: 9780140557398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40