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National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) Classroom Materials Descriptions
Korea:
A Single Shard $6.99 – Ages 10 & Up
This winner of the Newbery Medal tells the story of an orphan boy in 12 th century Korea who wants to
become a potter. According to the author, the three threads of the story are family, pottery, and an
adventurous journey.
Count Your Way through Korea $5.95 – Ages 4-8
Presents the numbers one to ten in Korean, using each number to introduce concepts about Korea and
its culture.
East to America: Korean American Life Stories $16.95
A collection of 50 engrossing interviews with a cross section of the Korean American community.
Echoes of the White Giraffe $16.00 – Ages 10 & Up
In the sequel to Year of Impossible Goodbyes, fifteen-year-old Sookan is living in a refugee camp in
Pusan, a city in southern Korea, where she struggles to rebuild a normal life and to make decisions about
her own life.
In the Absence of the Sun $19.00
When her grandmother became ill, the author became determined to reunite her with her elder son, who
was lost decades before in the family’s escape from North Korea. By Helie Lee, the author of Still Life
with Rice.
Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood $16.95
Richard Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of
the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. The book follows one Korean family through the Japanese
occupation to the surrender of the Japanese empire.
Still Life with Rice $15.00
Writing in her grandmother’s voice, Helie Lee tells of a woman’s life in Korea through the Japanese
occupation and Korean War.
When My Name was Keoko: A Novel of Korea in WWII $6.50 – Ages 10-14
Newbery Medal-winning author Linda Sue Park chronicles the compelling story of two siblings, 10-yearold
Sun-hee and 13-year-old Tae-yul, and their battle to maintain their identity and dignity during the
Japanese occupation in the year’s preceding WWII.
Year of Impossible Goodbyes $5.99 – Ages 10 & Up
Winner of the ALA Best Book for Young Adults, this book tells the story of ten-year-old Sookan and her
family in Japanese occupied Korea of 1945. When the war ends, Russian troops take control of North
Korea. The family makes a dangerous escape to the south.
Reference Books
China:
The British Museum Book of Chinese Art $27.50
The book opens with a very good but brief introduction to Chinese history and then surveys the various
art forms. The British Museum collection is featured, obviously, but the individual pieces are occasions for
very clear and interesting discussions of the type of work each represents; the book in this respect is very
much more than a catalog of one collection. Recommended by the Seattle Art Museum as a good
introduction to Chinese art.
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