LemonSky reviewed Tales of a Korean grandmother. by Frances Carpenter (Tut books. L)
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5 stars
When I was a little girl living in Fort Worth, TX, I was delighted to get my first library card. I saw it as a sign of maturity. I loved the Fort Worth Public Library. It was two stories and I got to ride in an elevator, which was a big thing for me at the time. There was a HUGE children's section that you could literally get lost in. It was there that I found this book, "Tales of a Korean Grandmother." I was totally unfamiliar with Korea and had never heard of Frances Carpenter. However, I fell in love with the book. It was totally unlike any other stories I had read up until that time. I had read almost nothing about Asia, so the setting in "Tales" was very exotic.
The frame of the story is about a Korean family and tells of their daily lives. The …
When I was a little girl living in Fort Worth, TX, I was delighted to get my first library card. I saw it as a sign of maturity. I loved the Fort Worth Public Library. It was two stories and I got to ride in an elevator, which was a big thing for me at the time. There was a HUGE children's section that you could literally get lost in. It was there that I found this book, "Tales of a Korean Grandmother." I was totally unfamiliar with Korea and had never heard of Frances Carpenter. However, I fell in love with the book. It was totally unlike any other stories I had read up until that time. I had read almost nothing about Asia, so the setting in "Tales" was very exotic.
The frame of the story is about a Korean family and tells of their daily lives. The stories are told by the grandmother, called Halmoni, to her grandchildren, Ok Cha and Yong Tu. The one story that I had always remembered, even after so many years, was about the courageous and self-less gesang, Nonga, who defeated a Japanese general ("The Rock of the Falling Flower"). When I came across this book again finally, that was the first story that I read, even though it is next to the last in the book.
This book is written for children, but is not written down to them. It can be appreciated by all ages and I highly recommend it.