- Hardcover
- Publisher: Macmillan (1956)
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0007E6NSW
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A little lizard in San Francisco
5 Jan 2010
By E. M. Van Court
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Sam Ling Toy is a kind hearted business man in San Francisco's Chinatown. He can't ignore a homeless animal, and makes a place for all of them, including what appears to be a small lizard.
Sam Ling Toy has brought home a baby dragon, and the dragon just wants to be useful. With his "horns of silver and whiskers of silk and a long and wiggly tail", and one red and one green eye, the dragon sets off to make himself useful. Much as Make Way for Ducklings is a child's tour of part of Boston, "The Useful Dragon of Sam Ling Toy" is a child's tour of San Francisco's Chinatown. Eventually, the dragon finds a role where he is really useful.
A charming children's book about a dragon in San Francisco.
E. M. Van Court
Sam Ling Toy has brought home a baby dragon, and the dragon just wants to be useful. With his "horns of silver and whiskers of silk and a long and wiggly tail", and one red and one green eye, the dragon sets off to make himself useful. Much as Make Way for Ducklings is a child's tour of part of Boston, "The Useful Dragon of Sam Ling Toy" is a child's tour of San Francisco's Chinatown. Eventually, the dragon finds a role where he is really useful.
A charming children's book about a dragon in San Francisco.
E. M. Van Court
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An old favorite
30 May 2010
By wiredweird
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Format:Hardcover
I recently came across this childhood favorite again. Of course, a half-hundred years (give or take) since I saw it last have changed my reading somewhat. For one thing, I find it pleasantly free of the moralizing that seems to have taken over kid-lit these days - or at least somewhat lower-key in delivering whatever message it might hold. For another, it presents an image of Chinese-American culture that would never pass today's Correctness Inquisition. (I consider that today's problem, not the earlier era's.)
On the whole, I found this warmly nostalgic, but not one that my library still needs.
- wiredweird
On the whole, I found this warmly nostalgic, but not one that my library still needs.
- wiredweird
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