While travelling back to the Warlord's palace in ancient China, Chuan and his mentor journey across the desert with a troupe of puppeteers. An attack by bandits leaves the performers without their marionettes. Using a melon, Chuan fashions a crude, disproportionate puppet in an attempt to help his new friends. With his mentor's guidance, concepts of ratio and proportion are learned. Subsequent created puppets adhere to the Chinese art proportions of a ratio of one to six for the head to the body. This fourth book in the Warlord Series presents an authentic application of ratio and proportion concepts.--Ministry of Education website.

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