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    Tibet Through the Red Box: Through The Red Box

    By Peter Sís

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    A father's diary, an artist's memoir.

    By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys.

    While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which was later locked in a red box. We weren't 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 . . .

    In 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 father's long absence during the 1950s.

    Czechoslovakia 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 China's 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 father's diary and from his own recollections of his father's 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.

    Tibet Through the Red Box is a 1999 Caldecott Honor Book and the winner of the 1999 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Special Citation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJul 15, 2014
    ISBN9781466856707
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    Peter Sís

    Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and filmmaker. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. Peter is a seven-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, a two-time Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honoree, and has won the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal twice. Peter's books, Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, Tibet through the Red Box, and The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain were all named Caldecott Honor books by the American Library Association. The Wall was also awarded the Robert F. Sibert Medal. In addition, Peter Sís is the first children’s book illustrator to win the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. He was chosen to deliver the 2012 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture for the Association for Library Service to Children. Peter won the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award. This award is considered the most prestigious in international children's literature, given biennially by the International Board on Books for Young People. Peter Sís lives in the New York City area with his wife and children.

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    • 5/5
      Peter Sis just has an amazing life story. This is about when his father was sent to teach the Chinese how to make documentary films, got lost in Tibet (which he didn't know was Tibet at first), and then discovered that what the Chinese were doing was building the road that gave them access to Tibet.
    • 5/5
      An otherworldly tale of Sis' father's experiences in Tibet and a parallel tale of Sis' experiences with his dad's absence from his childhood and a parallel tale of the later remembering of the stories his dad told. All this and intricate, fascinating drawings as well. It looks like a children's book at first glance, but there is much here to reward anyone who pays close attention. Dreamlike, hypnotic, multi-layered and recommended without reservations.
    • 4/5
      The author recounts tales his father told him from his travels in Tibet. Sections of his fathers diary are used to tell of the travels as well as the Tibetan myths  that were part of the author's upbringing.
    • 4/5
      When Sís was a boy in the 1950s, his father was drafted into the army film unit and sent to China for a two month long expedition. Instead he was gone 14 months, and the family never received world of where he was or if and when he would return. His father learned that he was actually recruited to film the Chinese army building a road into Tibet in preparation for an invasion. This book is the story of his father's experience as seen from both the eyes of the father and son.Once again the artwork is exquisite, and the story captures the confused emotions of the boy, as well as the adventures of the father. This book is a Caldecott Honor Book, which indicates that the intended audience is children. In my opinion, children would be hard pressed to enjoy all the nuances of the artwork or the relationship that underlies the story.
    • 3/5
      "Tibet Through the Red Box" is a very interesting book where Peter Sis takes us on a journey through Tibet. His father leads him back on his on journey as a documentary filmmaker though his diaries in the red box. The journal entries and stories lead the reader on a journey of Tibet. We learn of the Yeti, the Dali Lama, and other traditions in Tibet. The illustrations are amazing. Peter Sis also uses the font to jump between his father's journal entries and the stories his father has told him. This book reads just like fiction, but helps introduce the reader to the wonder that is Tibet. I think this would be great for students learning about geography, traditions of foreign lands, or religion to read.
    • 5/5
      A rich and delightful children's book, this series of stories within a story has much to offer adults, as well. At once magical and profound, it's the story of a boy growing up in post-WWII Prague whose father is sent by the Soviet government to document, through film, the building of a road to Tibet. Later, the boy discovers the adventures of his father though his father's diary. The illustrations are subtle and beautiful, and the narration weaves through them both physically and in terms of story. It's easy to see why this was granted the Caldecott honor.
    • 5/5
      A superbly illustrated tale reconstructing the author's father's trip into Tibet in 1959 when he was meant to photograph a road construction project at the time of the Chinese take over of the country. The father becomes separated from the road project and ends up in Lhasa. This is one of the best illustrated books I've ever seen, tiny little drawings, each one a gem. I am so grateful to an artist friend who told me about Peter Sis and his remarkable work.
    • 5/5
      This book was given to me by my friend XS. I became totally entranced by the illustrations and caught up in the story/dream, transported to high altitudes and mysterious, forbidden memories. I am giving this as a birthday to a dear friend who is embarked on a landscaping course.