6/9/2023 0 Comments A single shard online book![]() ![]() So Tree-ear is somewhat of an oddity, and his secret desire to learn how to make fine clay pots seems to be hopeless with all apprenticeships being passed from father to son. Extended family would nearly always care for crippled or orphaned members, even if quite distant, and if all else failed the monks in the mountain monasteries would. ![]() ![]() The village of Ch’ul’po is renowned in all Korea for its beautiful green clay ceramics and made slightly unusual by the presence of a crippled homeless bridge dweller Crane-man (who stands on his one good leg) and the orphan he cares for, Tree-ear (named after a mushroom that clings to a tree root as the boy clung to Crane-man). It chronicles orphan boy Tree-ear’s apprenticeship to master potter Min. 2002 Newbery winner, A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (2002) is set in 12th century Korea. ![]()
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