![]() ![]() Marjorie Flack didn’t know China, Kurt Wiese did, that was the genesis the ramifications were many. ![]() This was one of the first instances in picturebooks proper of a story being written by one person to be pictured by another, and as the first notable instance, the collaboration of an established author and illustrator, it was bound to be influential. "Ping is a real story, a full story, complete in words, but so full of images-the wise-eyed boat, the march of the many ducks, the assortment of boats on the Yangtze, the capture and imprisonment of Ping-that it seems made, as it was, for pictures. ![]() The Story About Ping written by Marjorie Flack illustrated by Kurt Wiese Viking, 1933.Ĭhildrens Picturebook Price Guide: $740 VG+įrom Barbara Bader’s the American Picturebook, from Noah’s Ark to the Beast Within (page 66): ![]()
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