The Painted Dragon

Author : Katherine Woodfine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610676953
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Painted Dragon written by Katherine Woodfine and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When a priceless painting is stolen, our dauntless heroines, Sophie and Lil, find themselves faced with forgery, trickery and deceit on all sides! Be amazed as the brave duo pit their wits against this fiendish puzzle! Marvel at their cunning plan to unmask the villain and prove themselves detectives to be reckoned with - no matter what dangers lie ahead ..."--Back cover.

Author : Demi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416924698
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Painted Dragons written by Demi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ping, a painter of dragons--of which he is secretly afraid--is challenged to seek the truth, find the truth, and dare to be true when he is presented with three pearls of wisdom by the Heavenly Dragon.

Author : Katherine Woodfine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610678766
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Midnight Peacock written by Katherine Woodfine and published by . This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The festive season has come to Sinclair's and Sophie and Lil are spending the holidays at snowy Winter Hall. As sinister secrets come to light, our intrepid heroines find themselves faced with a more baffling mystery than ever before! With the help of their friends, can they uncover the truth in time to foil a truly diabolical plot? Or will Mr Sinclair's New Year's Eve Midnight Peacock Ball spell disaster for the dauntless young detectives? Prepare for shocks and surprises in the thrilling conclusion to the Sinclair's Mysteries!

Author : Katherine Woodfine
Publisher : Kane/Miller Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781610676618
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Painted Dragon written by Katherine Woodfine and published by Kane/Miller Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a priceless painting is stolen, our dauntless heroines Sophie and Lil find themselves faced with forgery, trickery and deceit on all sides!Be amazed as the brave duo pit their wits against this perilous puzzle! Marvel at their cunning plan to unmask the villain and prove themselves detectives to be reckoned with - no matter what dangers lie ahead . . . It's their most perilous adventure yet!

Author : George Wyatt
Publisher : New York : Golden Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of the Painted Dragon written by George Wyatt and published by New York : Golden Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving statue, a suddenly empty swimming pool, a terrifying painted dragon - all clues proclaim this the most difficult and dangerous case Barclay ("Brains") Benton and Jimmy ("Operative Three") Carson have ever handled. The young detectives and their friend Mikko soon discover that the villains are the deadly variety, who will stop at nothing to get what they want."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Kristi L. Miller
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 164530261X
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ivan the Terrible Dragon written by Kristi L. Miller and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan the Terrible Dragon By: Kristi Miller Ivan the Terrible Dragon was written for the Author's husband, Ivan, and their son, Ivan Dale. Ivan the Terrible Dragon is a children's book where the illustrations are collaborative watercolor paintings between mother and son. The author first began by painting trees with inspirational messages, making homemade greeting cards, and then she created a personal business on ETSY and Facebook titled, "TreeLadyCards." As the Author continued to paint, Ivan Dale took an interest in painting alongside his mother. The Author began to see images and silhouettes in her sons blotchy designs that he painted. The author took Ivan Dale's painting and created something more detailed out of it; thus began her idea for "collaboration" paintings with her son. Ivan Dale loved when Kristi painted dragons which prompted her the idea to create the children's story, Ivan the Terrible Dragon. While her son inspired the artwork, the authors husband inspired the theme and writing of this children's book.

Author : Lesley Sims
Publisher : Picture Books
ISBN 13 : 9781803704982
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picture Books: the Dragon Painter written by Lesley Sims and published by Picture Books. This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming Chinese fable with dragons that come to life! Chang's paintings are so good, his birds and animals seem alive. So when the Emperor's new temple needs painting, he sends for Chang. But why is Chang painting dragons without any eyes? Is it true, as he claims, that if he adds eyes the painted dragons will actually come to life? With free online audio.

Author : Tom Kidd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844485413
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Draw and Paint Dragons written by Tom Kidd and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a comprehensive approach to the art of drawing and illustrating the dragon and its environment. Learn how to use and combine the anatomy of living species such as reptiles, horses, birds and bats to create believable dragon art. It includes time-saving templates to scan and trace.

Author : Li Shi
Publisher : DeepLogic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Art in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasty  written by Li Shi and published by DeepLogic. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the volume of “The History of Art in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasty ” among a series of books of “Deep into China Histories”. The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC) and the Bamboo Annals (296 BC) describe a Xia dynasty (c. 2070–1600 BC) before the Shang, but no writing is known from the period The Shang ruled in the Yellow River valley, which is commonly held to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. However, Neolithic civilizations originated at various cultural centers along both the Yellow River and Yangtze River. These Yellow River and Yangtze civilizations arose millennia before the Shang. With thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the world's oldest civilizations, and is regarded as one of the cradles of civilization.The Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC) supplanted the Shang and introduced the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. The central Zhou government began to weaken due to external and internal pressures in the 8th century BC, and the country eventually splintered into smaller states during the Spring and Autumn period. These states became independent and warred with one another in the following Warring States period. Much of traditional Chinese culture, literature and philosophy first developed during those troubled times.In 221 BC Qin Shi Huang conquered the various warring states and created for himself the title of Huangdi or "emperor" of the Qin, marking the beginning of imperial China. However, the oppressive government fell soon after his death, and was supplanted by the longer-lived Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). Successive dynasties developed bureaucratic systems that enabled the emperor to control vast territories directly. In the 21 centuries from 206 BC until AD 1912, routine administrative tasks were handled by a special elite of scholar-officials. Young men, well-versed in calligraphy, history, literature, and philosophy, were carefully selected through difficult government examinations. China's last dynasty was the Qing (1644–1912), which was replaced by the Republic of China in 1912, and in the mainland by the People's Republic of China in 1949.Chinese history has alternated between periods of political unity and peace, and periods of war and failed statehood – the most recent being the Chinese Civil War (1927–1949). China was occasionally dominated by steppe peoples, most of whom were eventually assimilated into the Han Chinese culture and population. Between eras of multiple kingdoms and warlordism, Chinese dynasties have ruled parts or all of China; in some eras control stretched as far as Xinjiang and Tibet, as at present. Traditional culture, and influences from other parts of Asia and the Western world (carried by waves of immigration, cultural assimilation, expansion, and foreign contact), form the basis of the modern culture of China.

Author : Jerome Silbergeld
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824872568
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture written by Jerome Silbergeld and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names of foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. In modern times, the communist government frequently referred to Nationalists as “running dogs,” and President Xi Jinping, vowing to quell corruption at all levels, pledged to capture both “the tigers” and “the flies.” Splendidly illustrated with works ranging from Bronze Age vessels to twentieth-century conceptual pieces, this volume is a wide-ranging look at zoomorphic and anthropomorphic imagery in Chinese art. The contributors, leading scholars in Chinese art history and related fields, consider depictions of animals not as simple, one-for-one symbolic equivalents: they pursue in depth, in complexity, and in multiple dimensions the ways that Chinese have used animals from earliest times to the present day to represent and rhetorically stage complex ideas about the world around them, examining what this means about China, past and present. In each chapter, a specific example or theme based on real or mythic creatures is derived from religious, political, or other sources, providing the detailed and learned examination needed to understand the means by which such imagery was embedded in Chinese cultural life. Bronze Age taotie motifs, calendrical animals, zoomorphic modes in Tantric Buddhist art, Song dragons and their painters, animal rebuses, Heaven-sent auspicious horses and foreign-sent tribute giraffes, the fantastic specimens depicted in the Qing Manual of Sea Oddities, the weirdly indeterminate creatures found in the contemporary art of Huang Yong Ping—these and other notable examples reveal Chinese attitudes over time toward the animal realm, explore Chinese psychology and patterns of imagination, and explain some of the critical means and motives of Chinese visual culture. The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture will find a ready audience among East Asian art and visual culture specialists and those with an interest in literary or visual rhetoric. Contributors: Sarah Allan, Qianshen Bai, Susan Bush, Daniel Greenberg, Carmelita (Carma) Hinton, Judy Chungwa Ho, Kristina Kleutghen, Kathlyn Liscomb, Jennifer Purtle, Jerome Silbergeld, Henrik Sørensen, and Eugene Y. Wang.