This husband and wife team took over six years to complete the illustrations in this book. My eight year old loved the illustrations-very fanciful and lavish.
One day a tailor swats seven flies and kills them with one blow. He is so proud of himself he embroiders on a belt "Seven at one blow". As he pranced around, wearing his belt, people assumed he had killed seven men in one blow and became wary and fearful of him. When the king hears about him, he makes him a commander of his army. The tailor proves over time how clever he is as the king places before him challenge after challenge.
My five year old inferred, "That tailor is really smart. He figures out how to solve all these problems."-to loosely paraphrase him.
Strategies: inferring, character traits
*Highly recommend.
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