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The Seven Chinese Sisters
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$16.95
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Manufacturer: Albert Whitman & Company
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Binding: Library Binding
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Albert Whitman & Company
Manufacturer: Albert Whitman & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 29
Publication Date: 2003-03
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Studio: Albert Whitman & Company
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Once there were seven Chinese sisters who lived together and took care of each other. Each one had a special talent. When baby Seventh Sister is snatched by a hungry dragon, her loving sisters race to save her. In Kathy Tucker's delightful update of a classic Chinese folk tale, each sister uses her talent in a surprising way to rescue baby Seventh Sister—and even Seventh Sister turns out to have an unexpected skill!
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Summary: Seven beautiful sisters
Comment: What a marvelous artistic talent is displayed on the cover of "The Seven Chinese Sisters" book. Each sister has a specific talent (the talents of only two are revealed on the cover). But look at their faces--artistically, they are almost identical, yet after reading the book, I can pick out who is who. Their hairstyles and sizes are the distinct characteristics.
"The Seven Chinese Sisters" concerns the distinct talents used in defeating a dragon. Never mind the improbability of the talents. We know the story is a folktale through the dragon; therefore, we can easily accept the premise of the story.
First, the talents. Sister One can drive her motorcycle faster than the wind. Number Two is just short of her black belt in karate. Sister Three is astonishing with numbers and counting. Number Four is a dog whisperer. Fifth Sister can catch a ball, no matter what. Sixth can cook the most delicious noodle soup, and Seventh, being a baby, has not revealed her special talent.
Once talents are introduced, the problem presents itself in the form of a dragon that comes to eat the noodle soup. However, another eating choice appears: a big baby. Yum! He takes her back to his lair for privacy and full enjoyment of this tasty morsel.
Of course, the six sisters go to her rescue. This is a delightful story, one that will have children cheering and Oh-ing and Ah-ing.
The rest of the story may be found in the book.
Yes, the story is exciting, but more lies within. What does it take to defeat a dragon? Just six talents? No, each alone will not defeat him. However, six sisters (remember the baby?) put their heads together (figuratively) as a unit, a team to obtain a goal. They are courageous and bold and creative.
Please look again at those seven Chinese sisters on the cover and thank the heavens for such talent--no, not the talents of the sisters, but the talent of Kathy Tucker and Grace Lin for giving us this truly beautiful book.
The seventh sister? Yes, we learn her talent and it is best of all!
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Summary: Fun for 5 to 7's
Comment: Fun book that plays off the concept of the 7 Chinese Brothers. My daughter likes it, as she has a close Chinese friend.
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Summary: Seven Chinese Sisters
Comment: I just bought this for my Amerasian granddaughter, while she was visiting. She hardly let the book out of her hands once it was read to her on a lovely parkbench in Northampton, MA
It is a dear story about the love of sisters, and the talents of each one; it also gives a novel twist to the dragon character.
The illustrations are lovely.
Have begun looking at other books by the author, Kathy Tucker,hoping they will be as excellent as this one.
Gigi
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Summary: wonderful story about sisterly love & feminist bravery
Comment: my 21 month & 3.5-yr-old daughters love reading this book together & separately, each on her own level - highly recommended; each of the 7 sisters has a special skill, each is valued, each contributes to the good of their family (no parents in this story); my husband was concerned for the dragon, a plot line dropped somewhat abruptly, but the girls just love it!
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Summary: Entertaining story, good artwork
Comment: I read this to my 4 1/2 year old. We started with The Story About Ping, and then looked for other books about China. Before reading The Seven Chinese Sisters, we read Mei Mei Loves the Morning, Dim Sum for Everyone and Good Morning, China.
Although The Seven Chinese Sisters doesn't give a lot of cultural information on China within the text, the pictures do. It's set in a picturesque valley with mountains in the background. A small village with traditional Chinese houses is near the river running through the valley. Across the bridge is a forest, and through the forest and up the mountain is where the dragon lives. Although the dragon takes the youngest sister, he isn't terribly fierce, so he shouldn't scare a young child who is having the story read to her (at the end of the story I mentioned to my daughter that the dragon is pretend, and that dragons are only in books and sometimes on TV, but they are just pretend...since we've talked about the concept of pretend/real in the past, she understood right away).
I like that when the sisters see that the dragon is starving, they say they will bring him noodle soup tomorrow (today they have to get Seventh Sister home because "she's all worn out, and she needs her diaper changed"). Unfortunately, the story never says that they did take the dragon any soup, so I turned the pages back to where they made the promise and explained to my daughter that the sisters brought him some soup the next day. I wish the author had included that in the story.
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