A young Chinese Princess is preparing to journey to an unknown far off oasis and an uncertain future. The Princess wants to take with her a memory of the many splendours in her fathers kingdom. One such splendour is a secret deeply guarded from the outside world and the penalty for divulging this secret would be death. So with this knowledge do you think the young princess would take such a risk and if so why? Could it be courage or revenge or both?Read this gracefully illustrated picture book and find out how and what the young Chinese Princess decided to take as a keepsake.
"Take with you some small piece of brightness, some shining memory, for the world is large, little butterfly, and the road is long."
A good read for a range of age groups. Older children will find new depths in this story.
Reviewed by Coral
Published by Candlewick Press (2007)
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