Chee-lin : a giraffe's journey / by James Rumford.
| Author/creator | Rumford, James, 1948- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008. |
| Description | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | Eighty years before Columbus, China sent ships to explore the world. The Chinese discovered many marvelous things, but one discovery stood out above the others: the chee-lin. This chee-lin was just a giraffe, but to the Chinese, it was an omen of good fortune so rare that it had appeared only once before-- at the birth of Confucius. In a storybook of chapters, in which each page evokes the richenss of faraway places and long-ago days, James Rumford traced the chee-lin's journey from Africa to Bengal to China, weaving a tale not just of a giraffe but of the people he meets along the way. |
| LCCN | 2008001863 |
| ISBN | 9780618717200 |
| ISBN | 061871720X |