For Princess Emma
UPDATE: Emma has recieved the book, and it is now her #1 favorite! :)
Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))"
Pamela S. Turner; Hardcover
Just ordered this for Princess Emma. I think that she's old enough to be interested in it (3 1/2) Her Mom used to meet up with people at the famous statue when she was modeling in Japan.
Plus, great Dog stories are always cool! ^^
Comments
What are the childrens books about China and Chinese - especially translated in to English?
The link Hachiko: has the wikipedia article, which is very interesting!
Like Balto, more people around the world should know the story of this wonderful dog.
Balto's Story Here
Emma has the animated version of Balto's story on DVD already...
i feel like reading too...
aww, Emma is so lucky...
princess Emma!!!
Send my love to Emma and Lizzy
Heard of this Welsh tale of a great dog's loyalty?? :)
Welsh legend has it that as a boy, 12th-century Prince Llywelyn was blessed with a faithful dog named Gelert, and this strange and sentimental retelling marks novelist Cullen's (Stink Bomb; The Backyard Ghost) picture book debut. Llywelyn and his canine companion are inseparable until he marries a cold princess and begins to ignore his true-hearted dog. One day, the couple's newborn son is missing and Llywelyn, discovering Gelert near the crib with a bloody mouth, raises his sword to the animal, only to find the infant safe and a dead wolf outside. Gelert then disappears, and Llywelyn is doomed to a life of regret. Later the prince is redeemed when the heroic beast reappears to him in two mysterious ways. Though somewhat stilted language dots the prose ("With an anguished roar, Llywelyn attacked Gelert"), the period setting and compelling plot will carry readers along. In a remarkable debut, Long crafts oil paintings that resemble medieval tapestries: steeped in a wide array of greens, sprinkled with blood reds and burgundies and teeming with flower and fauna. Her close-up renderings of expressive faces against deep landscapes of rolling hills and turbulent skies give the tale an epic quality. A handsome presentation of a fairy tale with an unusual moral: "The mightiest heart can come in the humblest vessel." Ages 4-up.
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