The house Baba built : an artist's childhood in China
(2011)
By: Young, Ed

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
E/BIOGRAPHY/741.642/YOUNG,E

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Biographies E/BIOGRAPHY/741.642/YOUNG,E Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2011
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 31 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780316076289 (hbk.), 0316076287 (hbk.), 0316076287 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"In Ed Young's childhood home in Shanghai, all was not as it seemed: a rocking chair became a horse; a roof became a roller rink; an empty swimming pool became a place for riding scooters and bikes. The house his father built transformed as needed into a place to play hide-and-seek, to eat bamboo shoots, and to be safe. For outside the home's walls, China was at war. Soon the house held not only Ed and his four siblings but also friends, relatives, and even strangers who became family. The war grew closer, and Ed watched as planes flew overhead and frends joined the Chinese air force. But through it all, Ed's childhood remained full of joy and imagination."--Amazon.com

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900L

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