It won an International Reading Association Children's Book Award and it made School Library Journal and The New York Times annual booklists.ĭragonwings was adapted as a stage play by the author in 1991, commissioned by Berkeley Repertory Theatre. children's book, and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for children's fiction. It was a runner-up (Honor Book) for both the American Library Association Newbery Medal, recognizing the year's best U.S. Dragonwings was not unrecognized in 1975. The CLA Phoenix Award is named for the mythical bird phoenix, which is reborn from its ashes, to suggest the winning book's rise from obscurity during twenty years since its publication. Part of the story is based on an actual event that took place in 1909 involving a young Chinese flier named Fung Joe Guey. He goes through situations with family and has to find his place in life. Moon Shadow supported and encouraged Windrider, even as they suffered hardships like the Great Earthquake, their poverty, and the gap between the Tang and white demons (Americans). Windrider had found out he was a dragon in his former life and was determined to be worthy enough to again become a dragon. Moon Shadow found out that Windrider, his father, had a dream of a great dragon king. Finally, he receives a beautiful kite from his father, for whom kite making is a specialty. From his new friend he receives some trousers and a shirt. From his uncle he receives a pair of new black leather boots. Moon Shadow is soon reunited with his father and receives a few wonderful gifts from his father, uncle, and new friend. When Moon Shadow is nine (eight in American calculation), a distant relative, Hand Clap, returns to China for a visit and when Hand Clap returns to the United States, Moon Shadow goes with him. Moon Shadow grew up in China, having never seen his father, who had traveled to " The Golden Mountain" in America and worked hard in a family laundry which served the " white demons" (Americans). The protagonist is Moon Shadow Lee, or in the Chinese order, Lee Moon Shadow. It had been a runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal.ĭragonwings features the Chinese American experience in the United States, specifically San Francisco, shortly after the turn of the twentieth century. Yep and Dragonwings won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association in 1995, recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award. The book is used in school classrooms and has been adapted as a play under its original title. It inaugurated the Golden Mountain Chronicles and is the fifth chronicle in narrative sequence among ten published as of 2012. HarperCollins 25th edition (January 23, 2001)ĭragonwings is a children's historical novel by Laurence Yep, published by Harper & Row in 1975. Historical fiction, children's literature Cover of the book's original 1975 edition.
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