Just got our advance copies of The Day the Dragon Danced from the printer in Hong Kong. It's so bright and beautiful, even better than I had expected The large format of the book really brings out the exhuberance in Carolyn Reed Barritt's paintings. The artwork in the banner, by the way, is by Carolyn Reed Barritt and comes from one of the images from this book.
"Carolyn Reed Barritt's exuberant painting highlights the joy of experiencing another culture for the first time."
-ForeWord MagazineKay Haugaard studied Art History at the University of Oregon, then moved to Pasadena, California with her husband. There, she acquired her Master's degree in Comparative Literature at Occidental College while raising her three sons who are now grown. Kay still lives in Pasadena where, over the years, she has written three other books: Myeko's Gift, China Boy, and No Place. The Day the Dragon Danced was inspired by a Chinese New Year parade that she attended in Monterey Park, California.
Carolyn Reed Barritt received an art degree from Macalester College and worked for 15 years as a graphic designer and art director in Michigan and Washington State before returning to her roots in painting and fine art. Carolyn painted the illustrations for The Day the Dragon Danced while living with her husband as the caretakers and sole winter inhabitants of a small island at the edge of the North Atlantic.
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