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Tibet Through the Red Box
Author Peter Sís
Illustrator Peter Sís
Cover artist Peter Sís
Country United States
Language English
Genre Memoir, non-fiction
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
November 5, 1998
Media type Print
Pages 64
Awards Caldecott Honor Book, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
ISBN 0-374-37552-6

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.

The book is an illustrated memoir based on the author's childhood recollections of his father's experiences as a documentary filmmaker in China and Tibet during the early 1950s, as well as Sís's response to reading the diary his father kept in the titular red box for the first time, more than forty years later.

It received the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Special Citation, the American Library Association's Caldecott Honor, and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1999.

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