Children's & YA

The Small Plover

by MAO Bing

Description

Stationed on the outskirts in Japan, after a few months' careful observation, the Chinese artist created the book about natural ecology. The book takes a small animal — the small plover as the main character, depicting their living condition and the relationship between them and nature, telling about the fortitude of life.

In April, the little plover flies back. She builds a little nest amidst the gravel and lays three tiny eggs. One day, when the little plover is out foraging, a huge crow jumps out at the nest and grabs the tiny eggs away. The little plover is so sad about her eggs and her failure to fight against the crow. She has to find somewhere else to start from the beginning. After months of careful preparation and safeguard, this time her little plover babies are born safe and sound. After overcoming various difficulties like the insecticide incident and the night cat risk, the plover babies are turning into fully fledged grown-ups. On a sunny day after the rain, a group of little plovers fly against the rainbow, saying goodbye to their mother land, and heads right towards the vast ocean.

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Rights Information

Rights Sold: the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka (Sinhalese) , Taiwan,China

Marketing Information

Won 2015 Bingxin Children's Book Award
Titled 2015 Top 100 Excellent Children' s Books Recommended by SAPPRFT
Won 2015 “ Chinese Power · The 4th Annual Conference for Chinese Editors and Salespersons of Children' s Books ”
Best Art Performance Award

Author Biography

MAO Bing was born in Hunan Changde and is now living in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. He believes one can only find true self in the nature. He has been staying in a quiet countryside for years, and is accompanied by nature all year round. He is an out-of-group, a minimalist living transcendentalist, a nostalgic stranger, but he does not feel lonely. He has many wonderful friends: little bugs, dragonflies, long-tailed birds, and even a bunch of pampas grass. He paints the natural life with a brush in his hand.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Hunan Juvenile & Children's Publishing House Co., Ltd.
  • Publication Date December 2014
  • Orginal LanguageChinese simplified
  • ISBN/Identifier 9787556206346
  • Publication Country or regionChina
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 36.79 CNY
  • Pages36
  • ReadershipChildren
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language Title小千鸟
  • Original Language Authors茅兵
  • Dimensions245×210 mm

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