Virginia Walton Pilegard

This book was a good book, the story took place in China. There were some puppeteers that were traveling to the market to perform a show, but they ended up getting their stuff was taken away by. group of people. They no puppets to perform with. But there was a boy name Chuan who was an apprentice to the artist that was traveling with them that carved puppets out of vegetables they had such as carrots. They ended up performing with those puppets and were able to make their money and perform for the people.… (meer)

Genre: Folktale
Age appropriateness:6 - 9 years,1 - 3 grade
Review:This tale is of the origin of the Chinese and it serves as excellent story to introduce geometry to kids. When an artist pay tribute to the warlord with an rare blue jade, he accidentally break it into seven pieces and never put it back. The warlord got angry and intend to give him server punishment.The artist protect himself by persuading the warlord to let him find someone who can fix the puzzle.The warlord agreed and promise the people who can solve the puzzle of the tile will be given a great treasure and brought to live in palace. Months later, people has been lineing up to the palace but no one fix the problem. In the end, a little boy play with those tiles and finished the puzzle and put them back. He is the son of a fisherman and solved the problem with his imagination and experience of fishing.
This is an folktales because it has common feature such as peasants, and commonplace events.Also, the story, overall, sound logical - even realistic. It also seek to explain mathematic problem about life and nature.… (meer)