THE TALE OF THE MANDARIN DUCKS
by PATERSON, KATHERINE
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine Dustjacket
- ISBN 10
- 0525672834
- ISBN 13
- 9780525672838
- Seller
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Bacova, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Wrtitten by Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson with painting by Caldecott winning illustrators Leo and Diane Dillon A beautiful mandarin duck is captured and caged by a greedy lord who wants to show off the bird's magnificent plumage. But the wild creature pines for his mate. When Yasuko, the kitchen maid, releases the bird against her lord's command, she and the one-eyed servant, Shozo, are sentenced to death. The grateful bird intends to return their kindness, but can he outsmart the cruel lord? Winner of the Boston Globe /Horn Book Award for Illustration, and a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Windy Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 01795
- Title
- THE TALE OF THE MANDARIN DUCKS
- Author
- PATERSON, KATHERINE
- Illustrator
- Leo & Diane Dillon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0525672834
- ISBN 13
- 9780525672838
- Publisher
- NY: Dutton, 1990
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1990-09-26
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED; ASIA; JAPAN;
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- First Edition
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