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Awards and honors for Beyond the Great Mountains:
Chinese American Libraries Association (CALA) Best Illustrated Book Award
Children's Book Sense Pick
IRA Teachers' Choices 2006
PBS Teacher Source, Recommended Books in Social Studies
Best Kids' Books Adults Would Love 2005, Publishers Weekly
Best Children's Books of 2005, Publishers Weekly
NYLA Books of the Season, Fall 2005
Kansas Reading Association, Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book Award nomination
PlanetEsme.com's DON'T MISS LIST 2005

Beyond the Great Mountains

A Visual Poem about China By Ed Young

10 x 10 in; 36 pp ; full color throughout, ages 4 and up
Hardcover
Published in August, 2005
ISBN 0811843432
ISBN13 9780811843430

$17.95  

Beyond the Great Mountains -- Ed Young's spare prose, as lovely as a rice-paper painting, describes in measured detail the beautiful and mystical land that the author so clearly loves. The unique format and gorgeous paper-collage illustrations, highlighted with Chinese characters, combine to convey the many facets of China to form a poetic picture of the land’s grace, depth, and majesty.

Ed Young has illustrated more than eighty books for children (many of which he also wrote), and many of those books have been about China. Born in Tientsin, China, he is the winner of both the Caldecott Medal and the Caldecott Honor, in addition to many other awards. He lives with his family in New York.

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"Readers of any age discovering that a written language is picture-based will be fascinated." -Kirkus Reviews