![]() ![]() Heyer's 15 illustrations show a masterful artistic technique. As she lies grieving, her youngest son, after the two elder ones succumb to greed, searches for the brocade in a quest that leads through fire and ice to a fairy palace on a mountain top. Obsessed with the beauty of the scene, she spends three full years copying the painting in a brocade, only to have it snatched away by a wind upon its completion. ![]() ![]() At the market one day she trades her work for a painting of a lovely palace. The story is of a widow who supports her three sons by selling her finely crafted brocades. Grade 3 Up The Chinese legend of "The Chuang Brocade" is faithfully retold in a volume of exquisite beauty. ![]()
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