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A New Year's Reunion: A Chinese Story (2011)

by Yu Li-Qiong(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0763658812 (ISBN13: 9780763658816)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Candlewick Press

review 1: What a powerful story about a family's once-a-year reunion at Lunar New Year. Maomao's father is a migrant worker and during his visit home he shares in celebratory gestures of the new year such as getting his haircut, making sticky rice balls, and decorating with red poetry banners. Text is sparsely poetic in that it makes effective use of the pauses between thoughts/emotions/events. Gouache illustrations are moving, especially the wordless two page spreads. This is a must read about Chinese culture for PreK-2.
review 2: Written by Yu Li Qiong (2007) & illustrated by Zhu Cheng-Liang Illustrations done in gouache. It is a picture book which tells the story of a young Chinese girl who only sees her father once a year at New Year's. The father builds houses in... more another place. The after pages explain that this is a normal occurrence for migrant workers in China - over 100 million - who are only home once a year, for just a few days. I was surprised to read this and thought at first it was just a crazy story but not true. This would be interesting to have students think about such a thing and ponder it. Beautiful illustrations. less

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