--- product_id: 19102377 title: "The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Picture Puffins)" price: "€ 17.94" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/19102377-the-tale-of-the-mandarin-ducks-picture-puffins store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Picture Puffins) **Price:** € 17.94 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Picture Puffins) - **How much does it cost?** € 17.94 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/19102377-the-tale-of-the-mandarin-ducks-picture-puffins) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Picture Puffins) [Katherine Paterson, Diane Dillon, Leo Dillon] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Picture Puffins) Review: Charming and affectionate - This lovely book maeasures up to every standard one can reasonably expect. The artwork is skilled and enjoyable. The story has kindness, altruism, moral dilemma and resolution, reward, and a big touch of magic. There's a pleasant realism about story, too. It shows a number of details of Japanese life, in passing, to give a storybook kid views of a life [s]he might never have seen in person. And, although the words "happily ever after" never actually appear, the last page shows the young couple deep in their old age. The book, as a whole, meets every objective standard of what I like to see in a children's book. For me, though, this book goes way beyond reasonable standards, well into the things I favor in a very personal and subjective way. I take immense pleasure ukiyo-e prints, the classical Japanese woodcut style that these modern artists imitate. I first saw the picture of the sleeping couple as a greeting card, and found it affectionate and romantic, with a tiny chaste hint of very grown-up love - that image led me to hunt this book down. The one-eyed samurai has meaning in my family, too. And the "madarin ducks" of the title, traditional symbols of fidelity, have a strong and affectionate significance for me for utterly personal reasons. So I recommend this book to anyone with a read-to-me kid. It's very easy for anyone to like. For me, though, a striking set of coincidences make this a truly memorable work. //wiredweird Review: Beautiful Story, Beautiful Artwork - This Japanese story has everything - good vs evil, vice vs virtue, love, wildlife, and family. It seems at first to be "no good deed goes unpunished" as humane treatment of the title ducks brings a death sentence for two good people from an evil Lord. But an unexpected intervention apparently by the Emperor leads to a fairy tale happily ever after ending. And as frosting on the cake, the beautiful illustrations in the Japanese style make the book worth its price as a picture book, even if you never read it! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #288,295 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #189 in Children's Ducks & Other Waterfowl Books #271 in Children's Asia Books #300 in Children's Multicultural Tales & Myths | | Customer Reviews | 4.9 out of 5 stars 70 Reviews | ## Images ![The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Picture Puffins) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Ec2y2h3GL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Charming and affectionate *by W***D on February 15, 2007* This lovely book maeasures up to every standard one can reasonably expect. The artwork is skilled and enjoyable. The story has kindness, altruism, moral dilemma and resolution, reward, and a big touch of magic. There's a pleasant realism about story, too. It shows a number of details of Japanese life, in passing, to give a storybook kid views of a life [s]he might never have seen in person. And, although the words "happily ever after" never actually appear, the last page shows the young couple deep in their old age. The book, as a whole, meets every objective standard of what I like to see in a children's book. For me, though, this book goes way beyond reasonable standards, well into the things I favor in a very personal and subjective way. I take immense pleasure ukiyo-e prints, the classical Japanese woodcut style that these modern artists imitate. I first saw the picture of the sleeping couple as a greeting card, and found it affectionate and romantic, with a tiny chaste hint of very grown-up love - that image led me to hunt this book down. The one-eyed samurai has meaning in my family, too. And the "madarin ducks" of the title, traditional symbols of fidelity, have a strong and affectionate significance for me for utterly personal reasons. So I recommend this book to anyone with a read-to-me kid. It's very easy for anyone to like. For me, though, a striking set of coincidences make this a truly memorable work. //wiredweird ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful Story, Beautiful Artwork *by T***E on August 25, 2010* This Japanese story has everything - good vs evil, vice vs virtue, love, wildlife, and family. It seems at first to be "no good deed goes unpunished" as humane treatment of the title ducks brings a death sentence for two good people from an evil Lord. But an unexpected intervention apparently by the Emperor leads to a fairy tale happily ever after ending. And as frosting on the cake, the beautiful illustrations in the Japanese style make the book worth its price as a picture book, even if you never read it! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I love this book because the art is exquisite *by S***E on December 7, 2012* I work as a children's librarian and as I was looking through my folktale and fairytale collection I came across this gorgeous book in poor condition and I purchased another copy so the children in my library's community could continue to enjoy this lovely work of art. 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