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Chargement... Chee-Lin: A Giraffe's Journeypar James Rumford
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Eighty years before Columbus, China sent ships to explore the world. The Chinese discovered many marvelous things, but one discovery stood out above the others: the chee-lin. This chee-lin was just a giraffe, but to the Chinese, it was an omen of good fortune so rare that it had appeared only once before-- at the birth of Confucius. In a storybook of chapters, in which each page evokes the richenss of faraway places and long-ago days, James Rumford traced the chee-lin's journey from Africa to Bengal to China, weaving a tale not just of a giraffe but of the people he meets along the way. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Based upon a true story, author/illustrator James Rumford's Chee-Lin: A Giraffe's Journey was inspired by Chinese artist Shen Du's 1414 painting, The Tribute Giraffe with Attendant, and upon accounts of the voyages of exploration undertaken by the Chinese Admiral Zheng He. Although little is known about the life story of the actual giraffe, Rumford has expanded upon the little information that is available, to imagine what the experiences of such a creature might be, captured and taken so far from his home. Although a beautiful book, both in the storytelling and in the artwork, which was created with casein paint, this was a rather melancholy read. There are moments of happiness, when Tweega finds humans who seem to care from him, but he is always being ripped from these new companions, and one never forgets that he is far from what he knows, and all on his own in an alien world. In many ways, this story reminded me of that found in Emily Arnold McCully's Clara: The (Mostly) True Story of the Rhinoceros who Dazzled Kings, Inspired Artists, and Won the Hearts of Everyone... While She Ate Her Way Up and Down a Continent. In that book, an 18th-century Indian rhinoceros was brought to Europe, where she was the only one of her kind, and where she was often thought to be a mythological being, just as Tweega was thought in China to be the long looked-for chee-lin.
Because it is a little text heavy for a picture-book, and because the themes it addresses could potentially be distressing - much like Clara the rhinoceros, Tweega dies in captivity, far from his native home - I would recommend this one to slightly older audiences, perhaps ages six and above. Children who enjoy animal stories will find it interesting, and it could also be used in a study unit about the Chinese voyages of exploration in the 15th century. ( )