Basho and the Fox. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, 2000
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
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Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 19.96
Item description from seller
Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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- Title
- Basho and the Fox
- Author
- Myers, Tim J.
- Publisher
- Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0761450688
- ISBN 13
- 9780761450689
- Illustrator
- Han, Oki S.
An old pond.
A frog jumps in.
The sound of water.
—Basho
There are important lessons to be learned, even by proud poets, in this innovative tale of a fox who thinks he’s a great poet and a great poet who thinks he can outdo a fox! It is the 1600s in Japan. Basho is writing the lovely haiku for which he is famous to this day. Given three chances by the fox, he must write a poem that "needn’t be great—only good." Confident of his skill, he’s sure he can win the challenge and its prize, the sweet cherries from the tree near his hut. But not all is what it seems as a newly humble Basho discovers! Delicate watercolors convey a truly Eastern sensibility that takes young readers back in time to feudal Japan while their playful perspectives reinforce the mischievous tone of the text.
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About the Author
Illustrator Oki S. Han is an author and illustrator of children’s books, including Kongi and Potgi and Sir Whong and the Golden Pig. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology and the School of Visual Arts in New York, she lives in Seoul, Korea.
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