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A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park (Reader: Graeme Malcolm)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Listening Library (2002-01-22)
ISBN: 0807207012
EAN: 9780807207017
Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: 2002-01-22
SKU: 07060414
Condition: New New
Comments: New audio book on three cassettes. New in shrinkwrap.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Read by Graeme Malcolm
Approx. 3 hours, 45 minutes
3 cassettes
Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch’ulp’o, a potters’ village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter’s craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min takes Tree-ear on as his helper, Tree-ear is elated–until he finds obstacles in his path: the backbreaking labor of digging and hauling clay, Min’s irascible temper, and his own ignorance. But Tree-ear is determined to prove himself–even if it means taking a long, solitary journey on foot to present Min’s work in the hope of a royal commission . . . even if it means arriving at the royal court with nothing to show but a single celadon shard.
Graeme Malcolm currently has a featured part in the Broadway musical, Aida. He's read tons of audio books, including Merrick by Ann Rice for Random House Audio.
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Customer Reviews
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leafystar
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-11-11
This book is pretty good especially to those interested in pottery it has a good story and good characters and is definitely worth reading.Eragon (Inhertitance)
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The Most Crucial Choice
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-09-11
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
My favorite part of this book is when Tree-ear must make a crucial choice between death and life. He chooses right and innumerable blessings come to his life and the lives of those he loves because of it. This is a well written book with a powerful message for both children and grown ups alike. Sometimes it seems everything is dashed to pieces. It may be some errand you are on, some thing you have responsibility for, it may be your life physically or spiritually, who knows what it could be. Tree-ear's choice to live is an excellent example of the most crucial kind of courage. Some people call this "coming to your own Gethsemane." Some turn away from this greater love and trade it for oblivion, while others walk the path to its source. Essentially he brings the broken piece of the vase to the Emperor's aide and, in a voice you can only hear with your heart, he says, "forgive the robbers, they knew not what they did."
This book is absolutely fantastic. Very worth owning and giving as a gift. I cannot praise it enough!
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Amazing Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-08-29
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you are a teacher, from elementary to high school, you NEED to get this book. It is AMAZING.
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excellent book
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-08-29
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
A Single Shard is an excellent book for young readers and is equally enjoyable for adults. I will use excerpts from this book when teaching my high school students about early Korean celadon firing. The characters are believable and likable, the story line is gripping and well written and sprinkled throuhgout the book is fabulous information about the making and firing of some of the finest pottery in history.
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Not for a reluctant 10 year-old reader.
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-08-23
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
My 10-year old daughter is a very reluctant reader, so when a list of books was assigned for summer reading, I picked the ones that either have been recognized by other people or have won awards. I have trusted "Newberry" medal for years, and it had never let me down. Until this time.
The book was boring, monotonous, with words just flowing pass you without leavin an impression. In order to help my daughter to get through the book, we took turns reading chapters aloud. When it was my turn reading, I was literally falling asleep because for pages and pages nothigh was happening in the plot. I guess, that would make this book a great good night story, your child would have no trouble falling asleep, just be careful that you are still awake by the end of the chapter.
We finished the book and searched the Internet for images of Korean pottery, because even by the end of it, we still had trouble picturing the artifacts described in there. With all those hunderds of words that filled page after page to talk about vases, we still could not understand how they looked like.
A Single Shard
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