Alice Y Chen

Gebundenes Buch

Centipede Dragon A Benevolent Creature and the Pignapping of TuTu

Beschreibung

Centipede Dragon is a magical half-this, half-that, creature that was based on a batik, indigo-dyed, textile design created by the Miao (Hmong) ethnic group of China. A farming community, the Miao (Hmong) decorated their textiles with symbols to bring them luck in the harvest season. Both the centipede and the dragon are two lucky symbols, and so often, the designs incorporated a hybrid of two symbols into one double lucky symbol. In this third book of a series set in a village nestled by lake and mountains, a busy mother of nine goes missing! Centipede Dragon, Ben, Ariel and a new friend who has recently moved back to the village named Kai, work together to find her before her rambunctious offspring tear everything in the village apart. The friends seek to answer the question: who or what is behind it all? Could it be a rascally character of mischievous nature from a previous book in the series?

Autor

Alice makes her debut with "Centipede Dragon A Benevolent Creature" after nine years of allowing it to "mature" in her mind. A medical illustrator by training, Alice has been passionate about children's picture books ever since her teenage years, when she first wrote a book about an Inuit boy and his side-kick penguin pal, who were explorers in their imaginations. When she saw the original illustrations for David Wiesner's "Freefall" at an exhibit at her college, her fervent belief in the power of children's books was cemented. In the intervening years, she was busy with graduate school, establishing herself in her profession (for which she is equally passionate, see www.aliceychen.com), moving different places, traveling, and getting married. In 2012, she re-booted Centipede Dragon. With help from a friend to edit and re-edit (and re-edit) the story line from its original 2005 version, she then unexpectedly went on a massive "drawing tear," cranking out illustration after illustration. "The images kept coming up in my head, and my hands couldn't keep up." After two years of submitting for publication while constantly reviewing and revising the book with no direction or indication as to why it was being rejected, she self-published. "Centipede Dragon A Benevolent Creature" is the first in a series of books about Centipede Dragon and his non-magical and magical friends who experience life together in a village nestled by lake and mountains. The second book is planned to be released in 2017. www.centipededragon.weebly.com

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alice Chen Kitterman
• Seitenzahl: 34
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 221mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780578351995
• ISBN-10: 0578351994
• Artikelnr.: 63513809