Chee-Lin: A Giraffe's Journey
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
061871720X
ISBN 13
9780618717200
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Unknown
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Publication Year
2008
Publisher
Pages
40
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Description
Eighty years before Columbus, China sent ships to explore the world.The Chinese discovered many marvelous things, but one discovery stood out above the others: the chee-lin.This chee-lin was just a giraffe, but to the Chinese it was an omen of good fortune so rare that it had appeared only once before—at the birth of Confucius.In a storybook in which each page evokes the richness of faraway places and long-ago days, James Rumford traces the chee-lin’s journey from Africa to Bengal to China, weaving a tale not just of a giraffe but of the people he meets along the way. Chee-lin is a story for all time: of captivity and struggle, friendship and respect. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
