The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Ayer, Jacqueline

The Paper-Flower Tree: A Tale from Thailand

40 pp. | Enchanted Lion | June, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59270-224-4 $16.95
Reissue (1962, Harcourt)

(2) K-3 In Nu Dang, a boy loves flying his kite "more than anything else." One windy day the kite breaks free. Paper-Flower is about a girl who tries to grow a "paper-flower tree" from a bead given to her by a traveling performer. Ayer relates both tales with a storyteller's cadence; her vivid illustrations show a range of daily activities, people, and places in mid-twentieth-century Thailand.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: June, 1962; November, 2017