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Product Reviews:
A Single Shard |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Amazing Book
Comments: If you are a teacher, from elementary to high school, you NEED to get this book. It is AMAZING. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: excellent book
Comments: A Single Shard is an excellent book for young readers and is equally enjoyable for adults. I will use excerpts from this book when teaching my high school students about early Korean celadon firing. The characters are believable and likable, the story line is gripping and well written and sprinkled throuhgout the book is fabulous information about the making and firing of some of the finest pottery in history. |
Rating: 1 (out of 5)
Summary: Not for a reluctant 10 year-old reader.
Comments: My 10-year old daughter is a reluctant reader, so when a list of books was assigned for summer reading, I purchased the ones that either have been recognized by other people or have won awards. I have trusted "Newberry" medal for years, and it had never let me down. Until this time.
The book was boring, monotonous, with words just flowing pass you without leavin an impression. In order to help my daughter to get through the book, we took turns reading chapters aloud. When it was my turn reading, I was literally falling asleep because for pages and pages nothigh was happening in the plot. I guess, that would make this book a great great night story, your child would have no trouble falling asleep, just be careful that you are still awake by the end of the chapter.
We finished the book and searched the Internet for images of Korean pottery, because even by the end of it, we still had trouble picturing the artifacts described in there. With all those hunderds of words that filled page after page to talk about vases, we still could not understand how they looked like.
A Single Shard
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Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: WORST BOOK I have EVER READ!!!!!!
Comments: I was reading this for my summer reading log. It turned out to be really bad. Not only is it boring, however it drags on. do not read this unless you are obsessed with pottery!! |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Simple and perfect.
Comments: What an absolutely captivating story!! I am somewhat familiar with stories from Japan or China, however I guess I am just oblivious to contemporary child-aimed Korean-inspired literature. What a horrible elementary school teacher I am. Anywho, I 1st heard about this book back in college in a children's lit class... however never bothered to read it until my little sister found it. She read it and endorseed it to me.
And thus I was captivated by its gorgeous simplicity that made a honestly inspiring fable as well as a piece of historical fiction.
The story follows the adventures of Tree-Ear, a young orphan who becomes the servant/apprentice of a master potter. Tree-Ear yearns to learn pottery, however his broken-hearted master refuses to teach. When Master Min is summoned to send samples of his work to the royal court, it is Tree-Ear's task to make the deli.
This is a beautiful, inspiring story that touches on love as well as art. It brought tears to my eyes.
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