The Firekeeper's Son by Park, Linda Sue
	List Price:   $7.99 Unit Price:   $6.39 You Save:   $1.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   0547237693 ISBN-13:   9780547237695 Publisher:   Clarion Books Category:   Picture Books Pages:   37 Format:   Paperback Ages:   4 to 7
Description/Notes
In Korea in the early 1800s, news from the countryside reached the king by means of signal fires. On one mountaintop after another, a fire was lit when all was well. If the king did not see a fire, that meant trouble, and he would send out his army. Linda Sue Park's first picture book for Clarion is about Sang-hee, son of the village firekeeper. When his father is unable to light the fire one night, young Sang-hee must take his place. Sang-hee knows how important it is for the fire to be lit-but he wishes that he could see soldiers . . . just once. Mountains, firelight and shadow, and Sunhee's struggle with a hard choice are rendered in radiant paintings, which tell their own story of a turning point in a child's life.