The Painted Fan

By Marilyn Singer

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688117422
• ISBN13: 9780688117429
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 6 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 1 and higher

Customer Reviews

Very fine illustrations, and adequate supporting story

Lovely watercolour & pencil illustrations - full of beautiful line and form. The true rulers of a mythical china "Land of the Seven Caves" are busy quarelling & are easily usurped by the ferocious Lord Shang. After conquering the land, he is content, until a soothsayer prophesies that a painted fan will be his undoing. Skeptical but uneasy, he finally declares all fans are outlawed. Travelling he sees a simple goatherd he falls in lust with and has her brought to the palace & his downfall begins with quite a few adventures for the heroine along the way. Naturally everything pans out happily but you may as well keep SOME plot mystery to look forward to, even though it's a picture book. Very fine illustrations, and an adequate supporting story.