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The Story about Ping (Reading Railroad Books) (Paperback) (Paperback)
by Marjorie Flack (Author), Kurt Wiese (Illustrator)
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| MSL Pointer Review:
It's not a tidy, pat treatment of issues like children's anxieties or the value of accepting the consequences of your actions. Rather, it's a tale that provokes imagination-that taps into those fears and ideas without simplifying them. |
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Author: Marjorie Flack (Author), Kurt Wiese (Illustrator)
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. in: August, 2000
ISBN: 0448421658
Pages: 32
Measurements: 8 x 6.5 x 0.1 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00363
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0448421650
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The story line allows a childs imagination to be tested. The "What would I do if I were Ping" questions are on every page.
Children will find this a useful book for learning about how actions have reactions, that while we may have a curiousity about what is around each new corner, that we also need to ask ourselves how we would handle a situation should it not go as planned. Parents and caregivers can easily use the story book to both ask serious questions of a child, like "What would you do if you got lost and had to spend the night alone?" "How do you think Ping felt when he saw the boat and the other ducks the next day. We know he was excited, but what must his insided felt like? Did he feel like crying?
Target readers:
Kids aged 4-8
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Marjorie Flack was born on October 22, 1897. Her most well-known book, thanks to Captain Kangaroo, is The Story About Ping (illus. by Kurt Wiese). Ms. Flack was given a Caldecott Honor in 1947 for her book, The Boats on the River (Viking), which was illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum.
Barbara Bader, in her book American Picture Books from Noah's Ark to The Beast Within, proposes that "Marjorie Flack drew, but not very well; she wrote, but she wasn't a writer; what she had was a feel for stories-situations, for the most part-that would tell well in words and pictures and a knack for dramatizing them: a true picturebook sense." This storytelling ability was evident in her Angus books and another children's favorite she illustrated, The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes. Marjorie Flack died in 1958.
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Since 1933, The Story About Ping has captivated generations of readers, but never before has it been available in a mass-market paperback format. No one can deny the appeal of the book's hero, Ping, the spirited little duck who lives on a boat on the Yangtze River. Ping's misadventures one night while exploring the world around his home form the basis of this timeless classic, which is brought to life by Kurt Wiese's warm and poignant illustrations.
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L. Calderwood (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-13 00:00>
I read this book to my children (aged 5 and 2) numerous times over the course of a week, and they both loved it. They could not wait to read "Ping" each day, and my two-year-old still talks about Ping and China, 2 months after we read it.
Yes, Ping received a switch (not a beating) for being last, but he learned that being safe with his family was much better than being alone. He (and we) also learned that facing up to the consequences of being late (or any error) is definitely better than trying to hide from the consequences or lying about it. Much bigger trouble comes then. During the time we read the book, we learned about China (then and now), the Yangtze River, the artwork (drawing water, repetition, etc.), taking responsibility for one's actions, water safety, and many other things.
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Kevin Hamilton (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-13 00:00>
When I was a kid growing up in the south, I used to read this book over and over. That was in the 1960's, when the Chinese, who's side we were on during the war, were a people we were supposed to hate, and the Japanese, who we hated during the war, were a people we were supposed to like. Nevermind all those reruns of anti Japanese war movies that were still playing on TV at the time.
The wise-eyed boat, the fishing birds with the rings around their necks, the boy with the wacky hairdo and peculiar barrel tied to his back. The hand-made wicker basket and complete absence of anything material or useless.
It humanized Asians for me in a way that was not only healthy, but induced a curiosity of the region and its peoples that I have still yet to satisfy, even after living for 18 years of my adult life in Northeast Asia. (Maybe I'm still running away from that dreaded spank!)
Every time I see those Peking ducks strung up in those shop windows in Hongkong I can't help but think of Ping and his mother and his father and two sisters and three brothers and eleven aunts and seven uncles and forty-two cousins.
Read Ping to your kids. It just might change their lives!!
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Dave Shepherd (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-13 00:00>
The Story About Ping is a beautiful allegory for the futility of free thought. While conforming may be painful [as shown by Ping's daily swat for being last and least of the conforming], it triumphs over the frightening world of the unknown. Leaving us with the message that overcoming adversity through intellectual superiority is impossible and in vain. A perfect story for the proletariat children of the future, or for a President supporting the PATRIOT Act, though the latter may have problems tackling its big words.
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A kid (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-13 00:00>
Ping is a beautiful young duck that lives on the Yangtze River as told by the authors in this great fiction book. He lives with his family on the beautiful wide-eyed boat. Each morning they comb the banks of the river looking for good things to eat, but when the sun starts to set the race is on to get back to the boat, for the last duck to board the boat gets a spanking. When Ping finds himself to be the last duck he decides to hide in the tall grass on the bank and wait till tomorrow to board the boat. The next day while Ping searches for his family he finds himself aboard a houseboat ready to be duck stew. Will he escape and make it home or will he become duck stew? Ride along with Ping and discover that getting a spanking is much bette than getting in more trobule than you already are.Don't miss out on this great book and find out if the houseboat family gets their supper of duck stew.
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