Book Reviews of A Single Shard

This was a very good book, I would say that it is for ages 10 to 14. It is a pretty easy read, but very good!

I picked this up because it was a Newbery award winner, and because I'd rather enjoyed another book by Park, "When my Name was Keoko," which deals with more modern Korean history. This story is also set in Korea, but in the 12th century. It tells of an orphan boy, Tree-Ear, who gradually becomes assistant to a talented potter, and finds himself going on a journey to try to win the potter an Imperial commission. The characters are sensitively drawn and believable, and the small dramas of the tale momentous in feeling. Plus, the reader gets to learn a little bit about Korean pottery, which is very interesting!

This was an amazing book, it made me laugh and cry. I finished the book in one day.

This is book ahs an interesting twist on it. It was a good book about an orphan in the 12 century. He longs to work in pottery field, but is stuch with a man named Crane -man. They together, live under a brudge eating scraos of food. Will Tree-ear live to be the new pottery man? Read this book to find about the journy that Tree-ear makes to find out.

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