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Tibet: Through the Red Box

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
November 5, 1998

Pages
  
64

Author
  
Peter Sís

Page count
  
64

4.1/5
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Cover artist
  
Peter Sís

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

Originally published
  
5 November 1998

Publisher
  
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Illustrator
  
Peter Sís

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Genres
  
Children's literature, Picture book

Similar
  
Peter Sís books, Caldecott Medal winners, Picture books

Tibet Through the Red Box is a children's book written and illustrated by Peter Sís, published by the Farrar, Straus and Giroux imprint Frances Foster Books in 1998. It was adapted into a play by David Henry Hwang in 2004.

The book is an illustrated memoir based on the author's childhood recollections of his father's experiences as a documentary filmmaker in China and Tibet during the early 1950s, as well as Sís's response to reading the diary his father kept in the titular red box for the first time, more than forty years later.

It received the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Special Citation, the American Library Association's Caldecott Honor, and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1999.

References

Tibet: Through the Red Box Wikipedia