The Day the Dragon Danced http://www.shens.com/day_the_dragon_danced/ en-us Copyright 2009 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:44:44 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Asian Reporter The Asian Reporter has a nice, big review of The Day the Dragon Danced by Kay Haugaard, illustrated by Carolyn Reed Barritt. There's a picture of it featured on the front page of the paper, and a big interior shot and cover image included with the review. Nice!

"You can't get a whole lot more multicultural than this rollicking romp for Lunar New Year," the reviewer writes. "Kay Haugaard must have been a precocious girl herself, because her narrator sounds exactly like one. Carolyn Reed Barritt does more than justice to Sugar's vivacity; every one of her paintings is a knockout, from the surreal cover art to Sugar at her school desk, with the Great Wall of China and the twelve animals of Chinese astrology close at hand. Take a dragon for a dance this Lunar New Year."
]]> http://www.shens.com/day_the_dragon_danced/2009/02/asian-reporter.html http://www.shens.com/day_the_dragon_danced/2009/02/asian-reporter.html Reviews Reviews Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:44:44 -0800 Illustrator Carolyn Reed Barritt Interviewed at Jumping the Candlestick Deborah Diesen, children's book author and proprietor of the blog Jumping the Candlestick, has posted an interview with Carolyn Reed Barritt, illustrator of The Day the Dragon Danced. Barritt talks about her life, being a Michicander, The Day the Dragon Danced, and some future projects.

I love getting insights about how different authors and artists respond to being published. These little tidbits of information are so fascinating. For example, Barritt says,

"When The Day the Dragon Danced came out I had a reading at Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor and did a school visit and I realized how bad a case of stage fright I have. It's pretty pathetic that a room full of 6 year olds can give me the shakes. When my own books get published I'll have to decide whether or not I do any more appearances."
Read the whole interview for more!
]]> http://www.shens.com/day_the_dragon_danced/2008/12/illustrator-carolyn-reed-barri.html http://www.shens.com/day_the_dragon_danced/2008/12/illustrator-carolyn-reed-barri.html Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:17:06 -0800 Day the Dragon Danced featured in ForeWord Magazine foreword.gif

ForeWord Magazine has an article in their March/April Issue called "Worlds of Words: Picture Books Tempt New Readers." Among the many wonderful books introduced is our very own The Day the Dragon Danced. Author Elizabeth Breau writes, "Carolyn Reed Barritt's exuberant painting highlights the joy of experiencing another culture for the first time."

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"An African-American girl brings her grandmother to a Chinese New Year's Parade, where people from diverse cultures work together to give life and rhythm to the main float - a dragon. Ages 5-8". 
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Reuben Munoz / Los Angeles Times

By Kay Haugaard, Illustrated by Carolyn Reed Barritt
February 14, 2007 in print edition E-21

CRAAACK! Snap! Snap! Snap! Crackkkle! Pow!

I jumped about a foot. Firecrackers were popping all around.

"Oh, my heart!" Grandma said. Then she laughed.

A red firetruck with red and gold paper decorations snorted slowly down the road. A lot of pretty girls were on the truck. They wore shiny red satin dresses. Some had long black hair, and some had brown and one had yellow. They smiled and waved and threw money into the street. I ran out to pick up a new penny. "Here, Grandma," I said, handing it to her. "This means you'll have lots of money in the New Year."

"I surely can use some of that, child." Grandma smiled and put the lucky penny in her purse. Then she rubbed me on the head. But where was the dragon?

A clang of cymbals announced the dragon.

"Grandma, look!"

The dragon's huge red, green, white and orange head stuck around the corner. His big white teeth shone in his wide open mouth. His big red eyes looked from side to side. Below his chin hung his long white beard.

"Look! look!" I yelled. The dragon raised his head high, then brought it down low; then he moved it from side to side. His eyes rolled some more. "He's looking for bad things to eat up, Grandma." I giggled excitedly and grabbed Grandma's coat sleeve. The cymbals crashed and clanged for the dragon to keep time with his many, many feet.

"Better watch out, child, you can be pretty bad sometimes." Quickly she tickled me around the middle and I jumped.

Now we could see that the dragon was moving along on a long, long, long row of legs. They all wore red socks, but each pair of legs had on a different kind of athletic shoe.

Thursday: Why does the dragon have so many different kinds of shoes?

 

"The Day the Dragon Danced" is a Kids' Reading Room Classic that first appeared Feb. 11-15, 2002. It has since been published as a book in 2006 by Shen's Books, Fremont, Calif. The story will be on The Times' website at latimes.com/kids.

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At any rate, we were very happy to see each other for the first time. There was a line waiting for Kay at five minutes to one, when her signing was to start, and within half an hour, all 64 copies of The Day the Dragon Danced were gone. She kept saying that it was quite an experience, to have so many people clamoring for your book all at once. And that's another reason I love the NCIBA trade show.

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