Lon Po Po | 
|  | | | Title: | Lon Po Po | | Author: | E. Young | | Publisher: | Scholastic Inc | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 31 December, 1990 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0590440691 / 9780590440691 | | List Price: | | | Amazon Price: | $0.01 (via Amazon marketplace seller) | | | |
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• The Big Bad Wolf Strikes Again 09 November, 2006
This translation and retelling of "A Red-Riding Hood Story from China" is very nicely done, having been a recipient of a 1990 Caldecott Medal. The author does preface the book with a dedication which is worth mentioning: "To all the wolves of the world for lending their good name as a tangible symbol for our darkness." While the trickster is eventually duped by his three young "victims," I think that the story expresses a poignant death for the wolf: "Not only did the wolf bump his head, but he broke his heart to pieces." On the whole, I found the story to be beautiful and yet melancholy. From my Dakota (Sioux) culture, where wolves are not viewed as the personfication of evil or darkness, I can only wonder if others feel any sympathy for the wolf.
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• Lon Po Po 27 November, 2001
Everyone has a favorite bedtime story from childhood that they never got tired of hearing: The three Little Pigs, Alice in Wonderland, Little Red Riding Hood. Sometimes children's stories have a tendencey to mimic different characters, storylines, or fantasy worlds that children and parents have already grown to love. Ed Young's Lon Po PO displays a familiar storyline recognized as Little Red Riding Hood and it also includes familiarities found in Three Little Pigs. The addition of a few characters, alteration of setting and variation in the main plot creates the Chinese version of a compilation of American children's literature.Lon Po Po begins with a country woman leaving her three children Shang, Tao and Paotze while she ventures to grandmother's house. Soon after the mother departs, a person who claims to be Po Po, which is grandmother in Chinease, knocks on the door requesting the children allow her to enter. Here we are amused with recognition of Little Red Riding Hood and how the wolf tricks the child into beleiving he is the grandmother. Of course the children accept this perpatrator to be their grandmother, but are not fooled for long. Cleverly Young now turns Lon Po PO into the story of the Three Little Pigs. The children trick and the wolf and leave him incapable of harming them. There is no gore in the end, but instead a happy, clever and peaceful ending. Shang, the eldest child, tempts the wolf by taunting him with gingko nuts, which is suppose to insure immortality. The wolf of course desires these nut and wants the children to provide him with this magic. The wolf must reach the top of the tree to accomplish his goal of immortality. The children allow him to beleive he will be successful, but in the end the wolf is left without life let alone immortality.Young has created a fun and adventurous storyline combinig familiar tales. He is succesful in keeping the readers attention and his illustrations create dreamlike images allowing mystery to exist for the children readers. The images are almost ghostly as if they are created in the minds while being told the story around a fire with hopes of sending a chill of fear. I feel this book is very succesful and interesting for children all around the world to read.
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