Secure Your Copy The Shell Woman & The King: A Chinese Folktale Conceived By Laurence Yep Available Through Volume

Wu marries a young woman who can change herself into a shell, Because of this ability, a cruel ruler wishes to own her, In order to escape and save herself and her

husand, she must perform three wonders, MingYi's watercolor paintings give the reader a real feeling for China, This is a fascinating, although somewhat creepy Chinese folktale about a man named Wu and his bride, The illustrations are wonderful and the story portrays a struggle of good vs, evil that is easy to understand, There were a few parts that concerned me: at one point in the story, Shell cuts off a ghastly looking arm and the ending is fairly devious and vicious.
Our girls seemed untroubled by the eyebrowraising parts, though, and as the "good guys" ride off into the sunset, I think they liked the story overall.
Beautiful illustrations highlight this story of a clever, resourceful woman and her garrulous husband, As in many tales, there is an evil presence, trials that come in threes and a magical being who is both downfall and savior.
The delicate color illustrations ably create a long ago China of sublime manmade and natural beauty, This is a book of sublime loveliness along with a story that is certain to appeal to children of any culture, This Chinese folk tale tells about a women who is a mermaid, A man Meets this women and eventually they fall in love, Something bad happens and the king wants her but he can have this magical women, This would be a good book to read to the children and show them that you cant always get what you want in life so you must be patient and kind.
Born June,in San Francisco, California, Yep was the son of Thomas Gim Yep and Franche Lee Yep, Franche Lee, her familys youngest child, was born in Ohio and raised in West Virginia where her family owned a Chinese laundry, Yeps father, Thomas, was born in China and came to America at the age of ten where he lived, not in Chinatown, but with an Irish friend in a white neighborhood.
After troubling times during the Depression, he was able to open a grocery store in an African American neighborhood, Growing up in San Francisco, Yep felt alienated, He was in his own words his neighborhoods all purpose Asian and did not feel he had a culture of his own, Joanne Ryder, a childrens book author, and Yep met and became friends during c Born June,in San Francisco, California, Yep was the son of Thomas Gim Yep and Franche Lee Yep.
Franche Lee, her family's youngest child, was born in Ohio and raised in West Virginia where her family owned a Chinese laundry, Yep's father, Thomas, was born in China and came to America at the age of ten where he lived, not in Chinatown, but with an Irish friend in a white neighborhood.
After troubling times during the Depression, he was able to open a grocery store in an African American neighborhood, Growing up in San Francisco, Yep felt alienated, He was in his own words his neighborhood's "all purpose Asian" and did not feel he had a culture of his own, Joanne Ryder, a children's book author, and Yep met and became friends during college while she was his editor, They later married and now live in San Francisco, Although not living in Chinatown, Yep commuted to a parochial bilingual school there, Other students at the school, according to Yep, labeled him a "dumbbell Chinese" because he spoke only English, During high school he faced the white American culture for the first time, However, it was while attending high school that he started writing for a science fiction magazine, being paid one cent a word for his efforts.
After two years at Marquette University, Yep transferred to the University of California at Santa Cruz where he graduated inwith a B.
A. He continued on to earn a Ph, D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo in, Today as well as writing, he has taught writing and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara, sitelink.