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    The Origami Master
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    The Origami Master

    By Nathaniel Lachenmeyer and Aki Sogabe

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    Shima the Origami Master lives on a mountain in Japan. He isn’t lonely, for his beautiful origami animals keep him company.   One morning Shima finds a marvelous new paper elephant on his desk. Where could it have come from? The next morning, a splendid dragon is in its place. It looks real enough to fly away.   That night, Shima stays awake to find out who could make such wonderful creatures. But when he discovers who the mysterious artist is, he learns a surprising lesson about friendship.   Included are instructions on how to make the origami flapping bird design.   Aki Sogabe’s paper-cut art in the Japanese tradition richly complements Nathaniel Lachenmeyer’s lovely story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlbert Whitman Company
    Release dateFeb 25, 2014
    ISBN9781480489363
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    The Origami Master
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    Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

    Nathaniel Lachenmeyer is an award-winning author of books for children and adults, and a playwright. His first book, The Outsider (Random House), won two book awards, was featured on NPR's "Fresh Air," and has been translated into six languages. Nathaniel's picture book The Origami Master (Albert Whitman) was a Junior Library Guild Selection, a Children's Indie Next Pick, and an American Library Association Book Links Lasting Connection. Nathaniel lives outside Atlanta with his wife and children.

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    • 4/5
      A simple beautiful book on friendship. Lovely illustrations too. Great for young readers.
    • 3/5
      Personal Response:I love doing origami so this book caught my eye. The story is simple yet clearly illustrates the value of friendship.Curricular Connections:I would use this for an art lesson on origami.

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    • 3/5
      I'll give it three because my boys liked it and were super interested it the craft instructions included at the end. However, I felt like the resolution was too quick and the man's contrition felt disingenuous to me. I wasn't a huge fan.
    • 3/5
      I had mixed feelings about the book, The Origami Master. I really liked that the story was about Japanese culture. I have not read any children’s books about Japan yet. Children can use the text and illustrations to infer differences in cultural clothing, shoes, houses, and environments. The book also teaches about origami, and provides a step-by-step guide to make your own. I did not like the plot, and the characters were lacking depth. There was no real plot to the story. The conflict was dull, and the writing did not engage me. I feel like students would become bored reading this. Overall, I felt like the authors purpose was to teach children about origami, but could not find a good story to write about it. The big idea of this story is to teach children about Japanese culture and creating origami.
    • 3/5
      This was a very cute and easy to read picture book for students from first to third grade. This is a great story that incorporates Japanese traditions and art with a fun story about an old man that finds a bird that can create origami figures just as well as he can. I liked this book for younger readers because the language and content was easy to follow, and was accompanied by beautiful Japanese style illustrations. The colors were bright and cheerful, and the story was not only entertaining but also had a great moral. The man in the book was desperate to know how the bird was able to make such beautiful origami creations, so he captured the bird, and took it away from it's nest. This at first discouraged the bird, until it cleverly outwitted the man by creating an origami key to escape it's cage. This depicted the moral of the story: sometimes mystery is what makes something beautiful, not how it works. This beauty can be spoiled by unraveling the mystery, and we don't want to take the mystery for granted.