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This Is Hong Kong: A Children's Classic

This Is Hong Kong: A Children's Classic

Sasek, Miroslav

Hardcover

Series: This Is . . .

General Juvenile NonfictionHistory

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 0789315602
ISBN13: 9780789315601
Publisher: Rizzoli Universe
Published: Feb 13 2007
Pages: 64
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.70 Width: 9.10 Depth: 12.40
Language: English
The classic children's series with over 2 million copies sold.

Like the other Sasek classics, this is a facsimile edition of the original book. The brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preserved, remaining true to his vision more than 40 years later. Facts have been updated for the 21st-century, appearing on a This is . . . Today page at the back of the book. These charming illustrations, coupled with Sasek's witty, playful narrative, make for a perfect souvenir that will delight both children and their parents, many of whom will remember the series from their own childhoods. This is Hong Kong, first published in 1965, captures the enchantment and the contrasts of Hong Kong in the sixties. Roaring jets bring in the tourists; bamboo rickshaws taxi them through exotic streets fragrant with incense, roasting chestnuts, and honey-glazed Peking duck. Sasek shows you the sweeping panorama of gleaming Kowloon Bay framed by misty mountain ridges, then moves in for close-ups of laborers and hawkers, refugees from the mainland, and sailors of flame-red junks, and the strange water people who, it is said, never set foot on dry land.

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