Planting Seeds
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Making a Book With China...the story behind The Dragon's Daughters Return
DRAW ON CULTURE: LITTLE FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD is an activity book designed to introduce children to Chinese history, cultural ideas and images. It pairs ready-to-color artwork with explanatory text, a stroke guide for practice writing the simplified Chinese characters, and a quick pronunciation guide as an aid to hearing the musical quality of Mandarin.
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Welcome to Thimbleberry Press |
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Thimbleberry Press, LLC is a newly established publisher whose aim is to bring thoughtful, beautiful and affordable books and web-based materials on culture, history, art and language to the broadest possible public. Please visit our In the Works page to find out about some of our upcoming projects involving language and culture for children, poetry for the general public and truly contemporary history for all reading levels through our soon-to-be-published Inspired Lives series. Planting Seeds is home to informative and creative essays on whatever strikes our fancy from Virginia Cornue's articles on being an adoptive parent and China scholar, to Laura Smyth's short essays and occasional poems on being a writer/parent/ex-urbanite. Everything we post on Planting Seeds is free and downloadable in pdf format.
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FEATURED BOOK
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Five percent of the net sales from this book benefit the Children's Welfare Institutes in China. The Dragon's Daughters Return takes you on an eye-opening, heart-expanding journey through China with beautiful photographs and lively, loving narratives. Join the Dragon's daughters and their adoptive American families as they visit a children's Social Welfare Institute and learn about the colonial roots that underlie current, hurtful stereotypes about China and adoption. Visit some of China's treasured historical sites and its new astonishing cities, while learning amazing cultural facts and useful travel tips. Perfect for home or school use. Includes school study guide, glossary of Chinese terms, a resource list and is fully indexed. For information about book store, library, institutional orders, or large order discounts please contact Elmore Reese at ereese@thimbleberrypress.com. |
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