Pre-Owned The Empty Pot (Paperback) 9780805082272

from LL2F

This is one of my most favorite books. I love the lesson about honesty and intergrity this book presents. The emperor is going to pick a child from his village to be his successor. He gives each child a seed and a year to show him the results. Ming is so excited in the beginning but as the book p...

from ktibbs

This is a wonderful tale of a boy with a green thumb in China. The emperor loves flowers and decides to have all the children plant a seed and bring him the plant in a year, he will then chose who will become the next emperor. Although Ping usually grows flowers with great ease, his seed will not...

from MsLangdon

Part Ca Demi. (1990). The empty pot. New York: Henry Holt and Company. Ping is a boy who lives in China. The emperor needs to choose a successor to the throne. So he decides to choose by using flowers. He gives all of the boys and girls seeds to plant and one year. The child with the most beautif...

from wichitafriendsschool

When the Chinese emperor proclaims that his successor will be the child who grows the most beautiful flowers from the seeds the emperor distributes, Ping is overjoyed. Like the emperor, he loves flowers and anything he plants bursts into bloom. But the emperor's seed will not grow, despite months...

from ebrossette

The Empty Pot tells an ancient story about a boy named Ping. When the emperor of his town asks all children to plant some seeds, he explains that whoever comes back with the best flower in a year will become the next emperor. Ping cannot get his flower to grow, and sadly goes to show the emperor ...