Himalaya: Vanishing Cultures by Jan Reynolds
	List Price:   $8.95 Unit Price:   $7.16 You Save:   $1.79 (20%) ISBN-10:   1600601294 ISBN-13:   9781600601293 Publisher:   Lee & Low Books Category:   Non-Fiction Pages:   32 Format:   Picture Book
Awards
2004  CLA Book of the Year for Children Award  Nominee/Honoree  2007  California Young Reader Medal  Nominee/Honoree  2005  Georgia Children's Picture StoryBook Award  Winner!  2003  ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
ASIA_JUVENILE LITERATURE
Description/Notes
'Describes the customs and day-to-day life of a family living in the Himalaya Mountains'--Provided by publisher. High in the Himalaya, Yangshi's mother is making a rice drink to trade at the market. For Sherpas and Tibetans, trading is a means of sharing their crops and goods with others who live throughout the mountain chain. Yanghsi's family also takes some of the rice drink to the monastery as a gift for the monks. Sherpas and Tibetans live simply, in harmony with the world around them. Yangshi's people believe life is an endless circle that goes around and around, as symbolized by the prayer wheel she spins at the monastery.