◎The Jin Ding Award winner's newest city tour picture book! ◎Comes with a reading guide, landmark introductions, and photos of real-life landmarks for comparison! ◎Designed to give the reader an appreciation of Beijing from different perspectives
A wordless picture book brought to life by detailed black strokes, A Tour of Beijing sweeps readers to the narrow alleys and big streets of Beijing, drawing out its cultural identity and temporal atmosphere. It also provides points of historical concern for further consideration.
In a Beijing garden, a little girl follows the footsteps of a black cat beyond her door; one foot after the other, she explores the alleys of the city. The girl and the black cat traverse through old alleys and new buildings, but suddenly, the little emperor in an old picture comes to life, bringing them on an adventure through time and space…
With her skillful black lines, Sun seamlessly combines ancient and modern Beijing as girl chases cat and reader chases girl throughout the city. We see places thick with historical significance, from Peking University to the National Palace, the Sanlidun Marketplace to the Beijing Olympics Stadium.
The book comes with a Reading Guide to further the experience and usage of the book. The brochure combines illustrations with real images and introduces to you each landmark depicted by Sun’s hand. With the three chapters "Reading Compass", "Beijing Tour Guide—a Travel Warm-Up", and "Beijing Tour Guide—Here We Go!" the reader can experience Beijing's beauty from every angle.
.................................... About Sun, Hsin-Yu
Hailing from Taipei, Sun graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University's graduate art department. During her student days, she won several prizes in illustration competitions. She has illustrated stamps, traveled to the source of the Yangtze River, stayed in America, Canada, and Shanghai, and toured Europe and Asia. Having worked all sorts of visual design jobs over the year, she has won several awards for her works: Day Trip and Afternoon won the Xingyi Children's Literature Award successively; ThePersimmon-Colored Streetlight won the 35th Taiwanese Jin Ding Award; finally, in 2015, A Tour of Beijing won the Italian Bologna Ragazzi Award (making him the first Taiwanese picture book maker to win the Italian young adult non-fiction special prize) and the German White Ravens Award. She is currently focusing on illustration design and picture book making.
Her illustrated works include A Tour of Beijing, A Tour of Hong Kong, Xiaomi Has a Little Bag (published by Hsiao Lu Publishing), and more.
Personal website: www.shystudio.org
