One Potato, Two Potato
One Potato, Two Potato
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This retelling of a Chinese folktale pays tribute to the author's Irish heritage, and to the joys of an old marriage, new friendships, and the impulse to share.
Mr. and Mrs. O'Grady are so poor they have just one of everything to share – one potato a day, one chair, one blanket full of holes, and one gold coin for a rainy day. After digging up the last potato in their patch, Mr. O'Grady comes upon a big black object. It's a pot – no ordinary pot, for what they soon discover is that whatever goes into it comes out doubled! Suddenly the O'Gradys aren't destitute anymore. But what they really long for is one friend apiece. Can the magic pot give them that?
Using pen and gouache the artist...
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This retelling of a Chinese folktale pays tribute to the author's Irish heritage, and to the joys of an old marriage, new friendships, and the impulse to share.
Mr. and Mrs. O'Grady are so poor they have just one of everything to share – one potato a day, one chair, one blanket full of holes, and one gold coin for a rainy day. After digging up the last potato in their patch, Mr. O'Grady comes upon a big black object. It's a pot – no ordinary pot, for what they soon discover is that whatever goes into it comes out doubled! Suddenly the O'Gradys aren't destitute anymore. But what they really long for is one friend apiece. Can the magic pot give them that?
Using pen and gouache, the artist Andrea U'ren shows the "simple" characters in all their winning complexity.
Cynthia DeFelice's One Potato, Two Potato is a Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year., ISBN13:9780374356408 ISBN10:0374356408 Material Type:hardcover
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ISBN10: 0374356408
ISBN13: 9780374356408
Publisher: DeFelice, Cynthia
Print Length: 32
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