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    Chinatown
    Chinatown
    Chinatown
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    Chinatown

    By William Low

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    Chinatown. City within a city. Home to street cobblers and herbalists, tai chi masters and kung fu students, outdoor fish markets and lots and lots of restaurants. And best of all, when the Chinese New Year begins there's a New Year's Day parade, complete with a lion dance.
    Young readers will be equally fascinated by the tour of this colorful neighborhood--and by their tour guide and his grandma who live there.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 15, 1997
    ISBN9781466820319
    Chinatown
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    William Low

    William Low is the author and illustrator of Daytime Nighttime, Machines Go to Work, and the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Old Penn Station, as well as a four-time Silver Medal winner at the Society of Illustrators. He teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

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      Author/illustrator William Low explores the day-to-day life of New York City's Chinatown in this picture-book, using a young boy who spends most of his days with his grandmother as a narrator. Visiting the park for a tai chi class, going to market for fresh snapping crabs, the boy and and his grandmother enjoy many activities together, culminating in his favorite festival - Chinese New Year.Although I have read books illustrated by Low, Chinatown is the first book I have picked up that he both wrote and illustrated. It was first published in 1997, so it isn't the newest title out there, but it is engaging, and the activities chronicled are every bit as relevant today as they were twenty years ago. The artwork, done in oil paint on board, are colorful and somewhat impressionistic. Recommended to anyone looking for children's stories set in Chinatown, and featuring Chinese-American life.

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