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Peter Sis' father was a documentary filmmaker who was hired by the Chinese to make a documentary about the building of a bridge in a remote province . 53 people found this helpful.

Peter Sis' father was a documentary filmmaker who was hired by the Chinese to make a documentary about the building of a bridge in a remote province - and instead ended up losing his crew and witnessing the taking of Tibet. Sis does a remarkable job of transmitting to the reader his father's love of Tibet and its mysteries and magic.

The Red Box is now yours," it says. This title has Common Core connections. Tibet Through the Red Box is a 1999 Caldecott Honor Book and the winner of the 1999 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Special Citation. The brief note worries him and pulls him back to Prague, where the contents of the red box explain the mystery of his father's long absence during the 1950s. Czechoslovakia was behind the iron curtain; Vladimir Sis, a documentary filmmaker of considerable talent, was drafted into the army and sent to China to teach filmmaking. He left his wife, daughter, and young son, Peter, thinking he would be home for Christmas.

He won the Deutscher for Tibet Through the Red Box. He also won the MacArthur Fellowship Award in 2003.

He has also been awarded with the American Library Association's Caldecott Honor for the illustrations of his 1996 book, Starry Messenger, the 1998 book Tibet Through The Red Box, and his 2007 work, The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. He won the Deutscher for Tibet Through the Red Box. Sís has won the Golden Bear Award at the 1980 Berlin International Film Festival for an animated short. He has also won the Grand Prix Toronto and the Cine Golden Eagle Award.

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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. Two Christmases would pass before he was heard from again: Vladimir Sis was lost in Tibet. The brief note worries him and pulls him back to Prague, where the contents of the red box explain the mystery of his father’s long absence during the 1950s. Two Christmases would pass before he was heard from again: Vladimir Sis was lost in Tibet

Many critics have called this book one of Sis' most personal because it does describe his relationship with his father, how he viewed his father's adventures as a child.

Many critics have called this book one of Sis' most personal because it does describe his relationship with his father, how he viewed his father's adventures as a child.

Peter Sis gave us all the opportunity to read the pictures first: why the sepia toned photos and the father-shaped . It is never too early to educate children in the ways of the world, and "Tibet - Through the Red Box" does so with beauty and compassion.

Peter Sis gave us all the opportunity to read the pictures first: why the sepia toned photos and the father-shaped holes? Why the mandelas? The maps? . Labeling something as "political" (as if that was automatically a negative) and discarding it for that reason is symptomatic of the thinking that has kept Tibet repressed for so long.

In New York, Peter Sis receives a letter from his father

In New York, Peter Sis receives a letter from his father. The Red Box is now yours," it says. Vladimir Sis was actually drafted by the Chinese government to record the construction of a highway from China into Tibet; he was to be gone more than two years, unable to communicate with his family. During that time, China invaded the neighboring country, and Sis senior witnessed events he dared not describe even after he returned home, except through "magical stories" he related to his son.

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