The Peasant Prince by Li Cunxin (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Peasant Prince by Li Cunxin This is your one chance. You have your secret dreams. Follow them Make them come true . . . In a poor village in northern China, a small boy is about to be taken away from everything hes ever known. He is so afraid, but his mother urges him to follow his dreams. For soon he will become a dancer, one of the finest dancers in the world . . . FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This is your one chance. You have your secret dreams. Follow them! Make them come true!A moving and inspirational story based on the authors life that delights the young and the old, again and again.This true story of a poor Chinese peasant boy, who at the age of ten was plucked unsuspectingly from millions of others across the land to be trained as a ballet dancer, is a fairytale that has captivated children and adults alike. Li tells his story with disarming simplicity and charm, with humour and compassion, and here he speaks directly to the small child, his special audience. He has a personal story to tell you, and he begins by introducing you to the land of his childhood, and to his beloved father, and to a small child who was once Li himself- he tells us of that boy growing up in hardship, yet with love and affection, as he shares with us the lives of his large family, the special stories in his life, the inspiring teachers, the experiences and moments he will never forget. Author Biography Li Cunxin (Author)Li Cunxin AO was born in 1961 in the Li Commune, near the city of Qingdao on the coast of north-east China. The sixth of seven sons in a poor rural family, Lis peasant life in Chairman Maos communist China changed dramatically when, at the age of eleven, he was chosen by Madame Maos cultural advisers to become a student at the Beijing Dance Academy. After a summer school in America, for which he was one of only two students chosen, he defected to the West and became a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and The Australian Ballet.Li went on to become one of the best male dancers in the world. He then made a career transition to finance and was a senior manager in a major stockbroking firm in Australia. He lived with his wife, Mary, and their three children, Sophie, Tom and Bridie, in Melbourne for over seventeen years until his appointment as the Artistic Director of Queensland Ballet in 2012. In 2019, Li was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queens Birthday honours for distinguished service to the performing arts, particularly to ballet, as a dancer and artistic director.Lis autobiography, Maos Last Dancer, has received numerous accolades including the Australian Book of the Year Award and has been published around the world. The childrens version won the Australian Publishers Associations Book of the Year for Younger Children and the Queensland Premiers Literary Awards Childrens Book Award.Maos Last Dancer was adapted into a 2009 blockbuster feature film of the same name by director Bruce Beresford.Anne Spudvilas (Illustrator)Anne Spudvilas is one of Australias foremost picture book illustrators and is an established artist. She divides her time between commissioned portraits, her work as a courtroom artist, and her award-winning illustrations for childrens books.Her first picture book, The Race by Christobel Mattingley, won the Crichton Award for Illustration and was an Honour Book in the Childrens Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Awards in 1996. Anne has produced many award-winning picture books, including Jenny Angel by Margaret Wild, winner of the CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award, 2000, and Woolvs in the Sitee by Margaret Wild, shortlisted for the CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award, 2007 and joint winner in the Childrens Short Story category of the 2006 Aurealis Awards.Anne also illustrated The Peasant Prince, the picture book based on Li Cunxins international best-selling autobiography Maos Last Dancer - now a hugely successful motion picture. Anne rtravelled to China with Li to visit his home town of Qingdao and to meet his family, gathering valuable background material for the book.She has illustrated several chapter books in the Aussie Nibbles and Aussie Bites series and more recently collaborated with Isobelle Carmody to produce the beautiful and haunting The Night School. Promotional This is your one chance. You have your secret dreams. Follow them! Make them come true! A moving and inspirational story based on the authors life that delights the young and the old, again and again. Promotional "Headline" This is your one chance. You have your secret dreams. Follow them! Make them come true! A moving and inspirational story based on the authors life that delights the young and the old, again and again. Details ISBN0143503111 Author Li Cunxin Pages 40 ISBN-10 0143503111 ISBN-13 9780143503118 Format Paperback Year 2017 Audience Age 5-8 Language English Illustrator Anne Spudvilas DEWEY 792.8092 UK Release Date 2017-09-03 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Publication Date 2017-09-03 Imprint Puffin Place of Publication New York, NY Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2017-09-03 Audience Children / Juvenile NZ Release Date 2017-07-02 AU Release Date 2017-07-02 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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