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Summary: this book is an old Laos folktale about why there are few tigers on the planet. The tale simply goes that the first tiger mates learned that they would have nine cubs each year for as long as they remembered that would have nine cubs each year, however, they forgot this and thought instead that they would have one cub every nine years instead, so fewer tigers were born less frequently.
Review: The book is told in a simple story format with colorful artistry to describe what is going on at that moment. I know it is a folk tale because they book at the beginning tells me it is an old Laos folktale that was used to explain the tiger population.
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C-Roy | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 25, 2017 |
This is a classic folktale told by the Hmong people for many generations, and Blia Xiong was able to tell her own version of this folktale. Tiger was lonely and had no children. So, she went to the great god Shao and he promised that she would have nine cubs in one year. But Bird overhears and comes up with a trick so the land won't be overrun by tigers. The illustrations are so colorful and vibrant. It was able to capture the characters, landscape, and a sense of the Hmong story cloth. It has rhythmic text so it is easy to know what will come next. I highly recommend this book to teachers because it is a truly beautiful Hmong folktale story. Teachers can use this in the classroom by teaching their students the Hmong culture's tradition. For students to learn other people's culture and history background. I loved this book wholeheartedly because their's only a few Hmong children's book. Nine-In-One: Grr! Grr! truly captured the Hmong people's story cloth written into a book. Also, maybe there could have been more tigers in the world but because Bird tricked Tiger there aren't that many tigers.… (mehr)
 
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s.vang | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Sep 24, 2015 |
Unhappy because she had no offspring, Tiger set out one day to ask Shao - the god who lived in the sky - how many cubs she would bear. Delighted with his answer, that she would have nine cubs per year, provided she remembered his reply, she set off for home, chanting "Nine-In-One, Grr! Grr! Nine-In-One, Grr! Grr! Overheard by the quick-witted Eu bird, who immediately set out to investigate this song, and - after visiting Shao and learning its meaning - to prevent it from coming to pass, the forgetful Tiger was tricked into thinking that her song should be "One-In-Nine."

This sprightly folktale from the Hmong people of Laos was originally told by Blia Xiong, a storyteller associated with the Hmong community of Seattle, Washington, and adapted by Cathy Spagnoli. Nancy Hom's colorful illustrations - done in silkscreen, watercolor and colored pencil - use traditional Hmong embroidery, particularly the more recent "story-cloth" methods, as an inspiration. With an appealing narrative and bold, eye-catching art, Nine-In-One, Grr! Grr! is a folktale retelling that younger readers are sure to enjoy!
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AbigailAdams26 | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Apr 2, 2013 |
Another story of the creation of magical items is the Chinese tale, Zhuang Brocade. In this tale a mother who already possesses a supernatural gift for weaving thread into lifelike forms finds a beautiful painting depicting a land in which she longed to live in. Spending many years, she weaves the painting for herself, using her own tears and blood, much to the disdain of the two elder of her three sons. When she has finally completed the painting, a breeze carries it away to the fairies of Sun Mountain, which poses a perilous and hopeless journey for its return. While her two eldest sons abandon the journey out of greed, the youngest son completes the journey and returns the woven cloth to his mother, who is now quite old and nearly dead. The miraculous ending occurs as the cloth transforms into the world around them, allowing the youngest son, his mother, and a fairy who tried to replicate her work to live in the same place that she had created from cloth. The story speaks to the perseverance of hope and dreams. Again, the magical gift is the reward of perseverance, just as in Turquoise Boy.

In Three Charms, by Cathy Spagnoli, from Japan, a young boy wants to go and collect chestnuts. A monk gives him three magical charms, three slips of paper, to protect him from the Yamanbas, fierce shape shifters. When he goes to return home, he realizes it is dark, so he seeks shelter in the cottage of an old woman. The rain awakens him in the night, seeming to say danger. He checks on the old woman, and realizes she is a yamanbas. She tells him she is going to eat him, and he stalls, by saying he must go to the bathroom. The yamanbas ties a cord to his waist to keep him from running away. When the boy is in the outhouse, he ties the cord to a post, and as the monster calls to him, he slips the first charm into the post and tells it to answer in his voice. She calls again, and his voice answered. She waits longer and becomes impatient. She goes to the outhouse and realizes the boy is gone, so she begins to chase him through the forest. The boy takes out the second paper and tells it to make a river as he throws it behind him. The river springs up, but the yamanbas can swim. He takes out his last charm and tells it to make a mountain. The mountain springs up, but the monster still chases the boy. When he gets to the temple, he asks the monk to hide him. In roars the yamanbas, screaming for the boy. The monk gives her some rice cakes and distracts her, asking her to show her powers. First he has her change into a giant, then, he asks her to become as small as a bean. When she is a bean, he eats her up!
I like this story because the boy the boy is warned against bravado, and when he lets the bravado take him, he barely escapes with his life. The boy must also think on his feet. The magical gifts he is given are not enough by themselves. Even though he is not completely successful, the story feels right because it shows that wits are just as important, if not more so in the case of the monk, than magic. This is an important lesson, to never rely on luck alone, but always use your intellect. I thought this was a pretty cool story, and would enjoy reading this to kids.
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