![]() Beautiful Feet Books, a literature-based homeschooling curriculum publisher, has just brought this title back into print. Anno’s China, which is book VII in the series “Anno’s Journey,” was initially published in Japan in 2009 but has never been available to U. Scenes include bustling villages where the streets are waterways and everyone, even horses and bulls, travel by boat rivers on which flocks of ducks are herded the Great Wall and the discovery of thousands of Terracotta soldiers guarding the ancient tomb of China’s first emperor.Īnno, who won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his lasting contribution to children’s literature, is a lover of travel and culture and is famous for his illustrated books which take readers through a variety of countries. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through these delightfully detailed watercolors, Anno takes readers up China’s Yellow River to explore this vast and varied land where calligraphers can bestow good fortune, birds do fishing for men, and dragons dance in New Year’s parades. Anno’s China is basically a picture book with explanations and descriptions in the back of what the paintings show. In the 1970s his books began appearing in the United States, but it has been about two decades since a new book by Anno (Anno’s Magic Seeds, 1995) last found its way to America. 1926) is a Japanese author and artist who has written and illustrated over twenty books for children. ![]()
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