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A Children's Book Council 2019 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12. This stunning nonfiction picture book compendium of facts about the world's highest mountain, with illustrations from up-and-comer Lisk Feng, will not disappoint. Hundreds of people dare to climb Mount Everest every year, following in Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's footsteps, hoping to experience Earth's highest peak. But there is so much more to this mountain than the brave mountaineers who climb it. Travel back to its ancient origins, learn about the flowers and plants that grow upon this great peak, and discover the rich history of religions, myths, and legends that surround this great Sagarmatha, the Goddess of the Sky. 20190709_09_01.jpg 20190709_09_02.jpg 20190709_09_03.jpg 20190709_09_04.jpg 20190709_09_05.jpg 20190709_09_06.jpg

출판사 보도자료

What the Jury said: A work of masterful graphic design, this picturebook combines modern typography and images that reference styles from the past in the colouring, sfumato drawing, and printing. This story of the geography, culture, geology and exploration history of Mount Everest is told in double page spreads where pictures and text interplay.

일러스트레이터 소개

Lisk Feng is an award-winning illustrator from China, who now works as a freelance illustrator in New York. She graduated from MFA Illustration Practice from Maryland institute College of Art in 2014, and has received awards from the Society of Illustrators and Communication Arts, among others. This is her first book.  

중국에서 태어나 메릴랜드 예술대학을 졸업했으며, 뉴욕에서 일러스트레이터로 활동하며 어린이책, 잡지, 광고 등 다양한 매체에 그림을 그리고 있다. 일러스트 협회 은상 등 여러 상을 수상하였다.