An outstanding intergenerational tale that captures a slice of life in contemporary China. Mei-Mei and her grandfather get up early, breakfast together, board a bicycle, and travel congested streets to a local park. There they hang the cage of their songbird in a...
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Another beautifully illustrated book from Grace Lin (Check out her popular Ugly Vegetables, Round is Mooncake, and Where on Earth Is My Bagel?.) In English, dim sum means "little hearts," or "touches the heart," but to this young girl, dim sum...
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In an impressive debut, Yin illuminates a dark corner of American history: the monumental labor of the thousands of Chinese immigrants who helped build the transcontinental railroad. ''Look, Little Wong, this is the land of opportunity!'' cries Shek to his brother...
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Another beautiful book from Grace Lin (Check out her popular Ugly Vegetables, Round is Mooncakes, and Dim Sum for Everyone). No one knows how the idea of a New York bagel popped into Yum Yung's head -- perhaps it was inspired by a dream, or by listening to...
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Now available in paperback as well as hardcover. Author/illustrator Grace Lin recalls such a garden from her childhood, in this charming and eloquent story. The neighbors' gardens look so much prettier and so much more inviting to the young gardener than the...
Here's another wonderful new book from our favorite author/illustrator Grace Lin. Kite Flying celebrates the Chinese tradition of kite making and kite flying and lovingly depicts a family bonded by this ancient and modern pleasure. The wind is blowing and...
Picked on, pecked, and jostled, Daisy the hen is not quite as happy as her Happy Hens market basket might suggest. One evening, fed up with the other pushy hens, Daisy crawls into one of the baskets by the river, and falls asleep. Unaware of the rising river, this...
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Song Nan Zhang traveled from Inner Mongolia east, south, and north to find and paint unusual scenes of Chinese family life. Here are the children who grow up in the saddle with their nomadic parents or become as agile as the mountain goats they tend. A boy plays...
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Xiao Ming enjoys going to the beach, where his mother teaches him how to make Chinese characters by drawing pictures in the sand. This book creates a lively atmosphere for this memorable lesson in Chinese writing. Beautifully illustrated, including a English-Chinese...
With the help of her little toy friends, Juliette, an Asian-looking girl, decorates her Christmas tree, bakes cookies, and waits for Santa to arrive. On Christmas morning there's a problem when the toys think they've been forgotten…but don't worry, there's a happy...
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Song Nan Zhang, who chronicled his own life in postwar China in two previous books, now illustrates a journal written by his brother. In 1968, Yi Nan Zhang, 18, was sent from Beijing to work on a commune in the vast open grassland steppes of Inner Mongolia, where he...
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Even as a young boy in eleventh-century China, Su Shih was clearly special. After finding a rare inkstone, he began to write stories and verses expressing his love of the natural world. His words flowed effortlessly. His brush danced across the paper. Shih grew up to...
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