Our Home is the Sea (Picture Puffin) [Paperback]

Riki Levinson (Author), Dennis Luzak (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1992 | Series: Picture Puffin

A boy rushes through the crowded city streets of Hong Kong--past bustling markets, tall buildings, and peacocks in the park--anticipating the next morning when he will join his father and grandfather at sea. "Reflective and light-filled as the sea at sunset, newcomer Luzak's painterly illustrations lend depth to Levinson's narrative."--Publishers Weekly. Full-color illustrations.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Reflective and light-filled as the sea at sunset, newcomer Luzak's painterly illustrations lend depth to Levinson's narrative about a young boy in Hong Kong who journeys home on his last day of school. Although his mother wishes him to be a schoolteacher, the boy is absolutely certain that he will be a fisherman like his father and his grandfather before him because their true home is the sea. This is not a story so much as a a portrait of a boy and the city through which he hurries to get to the sunlit water. The rich details of life in Hong Kong are exquisitely drawn. Crowded gray buildings, a blue-feathered peacock, an old man doing tai chi in the park, the boy's family crouched around bowls of congee and teaall introduce with subtle complexity and beauty and bustle of a culture so very different from our own. Ages 5-8.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-5 Luzak's richly colored textured oil paintings of an Oriental city, its busy streets, shaded parks, and crowded waterfront prove to be the dominant feature of this book. The young Chinese boy featured in most of the pictures describes his journey home from school to his family's sampan, and his desire to be a fisherman like his father and grandfather. The first-person text is brief and somewhat stilted. There is no story but only description. The city is identified as Hong Kong in the dust jacket blurb and in the CIP, but not in the text. Because of its handsome illustrations, this book can be useful for social studies, showing a far-away place and a far different way of life than American-born children know. It should prove useful to teachers who wish to discuss the Orient, or who have children in class who come from Hong Kong. Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, N.J.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Puffin (November 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140545522
• ISBN-13: 978-0140545524
• Product Dimensions: 20 x 20 x 20 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,757,124 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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