The LOTUS CUP [Hardcover]

Jane Louise Curry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 1986

Though two boys are paying attention to her, a seventeen-year-old in East Liverpool, Ohio, is painfully shy until she discovers in herself the eye, hand, and heart of a potter.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In East Liverpool, Ohio, Corry Tipson goes to the ceramics museum with her high school art class. Her standoffish new classmate, Tip, points out Corry's uncanny resemblance to a photo in one of the exhibits. Further digging brings out the fact that the woman is Corry's great-grandmother and that Tip is her cousin. Before she knows it, Corry has forged a link with her family's forgotten heritage, and has become enthralled in the making of pottery. With the help of an elderly neighbor, she rediscovers the long-lost formula for the Tipson family's precious Lotus ware. Along the way, Corry conquers her shyness and learns that people can't know what you're feeling unless you tell them. Curry has written an absorbing, refreshingly unsentimental tale of the simultaneous joys of artistic creativity and self-discovery.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

Grade 7-10 Information on the art of making porcelain is deftly interwoven into a story of romance and mystery. Corry Tipson lives in East Liverpool, Ohio, which was a center for pottery manufacturing until the Great Depression. When on a high-school field trip to the Museum of Ceramics, Corry's interest becomes aroused by the beauty of the Lotus Ware china on display. When she learns that her great-grandfather and her grandfather once owned pottery factories, she tries to learn more about them and to find the reasons for the estrangement apparent in her family's history. With the encouragement and help of some old, former potters, Corry becomes determined to reproduce a Lotus Cup, such as the one her great-grandfather had given her great-grandmother. The steps she follows to turn clay into exquisite china is accurately and technically detailedperhaps too technically for some readers. But they will be carried along by their interest in Corry as she grows in confidence when dealing with her mother, the two boys who show an interest in her and her plans for the future. Curry has written a book that reflects her love of ceramics and her love for all of her well-drawn characters. Lucy V. Hawley, Wescott School Library, Northbrook, Ill.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Hardcover: 230 pages
• Publisher: A Margaret K. McElderry Book; 1st edition (April 30, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689503849
• ISBN-13: 978-0689503849
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,413,609 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)