{"product_id":"tibet-through-the-red-box-caldecott-honor-book-9780374375522","title":"Tibet Through the Red Box (Caldecott Honor Book)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTibet Through the Red Box (Caldecott Honor Book)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Sís, Peter. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374375522.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fathers diary, an artists memoir.\nBy the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys.\nWhile my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which was later locked in a red box. We werent allowed to touch the box. The stories I heard as a little boy faded to a hazy dream, and my drawings from that time make no sense. I cannot decipher them. It was not until I myself had gone far, far away and received the message from my father that I became interested in the red box again . . .\nIn New York, Peter Sis receives a letter from his father. \"The Red Box is now yours,\" it says. The brief note worries him and pulls him back to Prague, where the contents of the red box explain the mystery of his fathers long absence during the 1950s.\nCzechoslovakia was behind the iron curtain; Vladimir Sis, a documentary filmmaker of considerable talent, was drafted into the army and sent to China to teach filmmaking. He left his wife, daughter, and young son, Peter, thinking he would be home for Christmas. Two Christmases would pass before he was heard from again: Vladimir Sis was lost in Tibet. He met with the Dalai Lama; he witnessed Chinas invasion of Tibet. When he returned to Prague, he dared not talk to his friends about all he had seen and experienced. But over and over again he told Peter about his Tibetan adventures. Weaving their two stories together - that of the father lost in Tibet and that of the small boy in Prague, lost without his father - Sis draws from his fathers diary and from his own recollections of his fathers incredible tales to reach a spiritual homecoming between father and son. With his sublime pictures, inspired by Tibetan Buddhist art and linking history to memory, Peter Sis gives us an extraordinary book - a work of singular artistry and rare imagination. This title has Common Core connections.\nTibet Through the Red Box is a 1999 Caldecott Honor Book and the winner of the 1999 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Special Citation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256122466357,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374375526","price":29.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374375522_5a6e53db-40a2-4286-9376-421e0be63d50.jpg?v=1779936873","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tibet-through-the-red-box-caldecott-honor-book-9780374375522","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}