Interest Level
Grades 3 - 5
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 5.2
Lexile Measure®: 930L
DRA: 38
Guided Reading: P
Genre
- Folk Tale
Theme/Subject
- Just Rewards
- Kindness and Compassion
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About This Book
Brilliant paintings illuminate this retelling of a popular Japanese folktale. Coveting a mandarin duck for his plumage, a greedy lord captures and cages him. The kitchen maid releases the bird and is sentenced to death. How the grateful drake returns the kindness, and outsmarts the capricious lord makes for a wondrous outcome.
An ALA Notable Book
About the Authors or Illustrators
Among Leo Dillon's many honors, he and his wife have received two Caldecott Medals, for Ashanti to Zulu and Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, four New York Times Best Illustrated Awards, four Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards, two Coretta Scott King Awards, two Coretta Scott King Honors, and the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal.
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