Dashdondog Jamba, Anne Pellowski

Story of the Mongolian Tent House

Illustrator: Vidal, Beatriz

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Relates how a father and his sons drew on examples from nature to build the first ger, or Mongolian tent house, which became a symbol of friendship and harmony. Includes facts about the ger.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: World Wisdom Books
• Seitenzahl: 40
• Altersempfehlung: 4 bis 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 272mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781937786816
• ISBN-10: 1937786811
• Artikelnr.: 57635922

Autorenporträt

Dashdondog Jamba (1941-2017) was a world-renowned Mongolian author who dedicated his life to writing, translating, and telling stories for children. A passionate promoter of children's reading, he traveled with his nomadic library for over 24 years across Mongolia, covering a distance of more than 85,000 miles. Dashdondog wrote over 100 children's books and translated more than 50 books by foreign writers. Among his award-winning titles are Tales on Horseback and Mongolian Folktales. Anne Pellowski is a distinguished Polish-American storyteller and authority on international literature for children. From 1966-1981 she worked for the U.S. Committee to UNICEF as the founding director of the Information Center on Children's Cultures. The recipient of several awards, including a National Storytelling Network Lifetime Achievement Award, she was a nominee for the prestigious 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Anne's writings include The World of Children's Literature and The Storytelling Handbook. She lives in Winona, Wisconsin. Beatriz Vidal is an award-winning Argentinean painter, illustrator, and teacher. Her work has appeared in well-known magazines such as The New York Times, Woman's Day, and The New Yorker. Beatriz won the prestigious Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award for her title A Library for Juana, while her books Rainbow Crow and Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain were Reading Rainbow selections. Beatriz divides her time between C¿rdoba in Argentina and New York City in the USA.