Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic
by Ginnie Lo
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Pub Date Apr 30 2012 | Archive Date Feb 03 2013
Description
Jinyi and her sister love visiting Auntie and Uncle Yang's home, where they enjoy dumpling-eating contests and backyard adventures with their cousins. One weekend, on a Sunday drive among the cornfields near Chicago, Auntie Yang spots something she has never before seen in Illinois. Could it be one of their favorite Chinese foods-soybeans?!
Excited by their discovery, the families have their very first soybean picnic. Every year after that, Auntie Yang invites more people to share the food and fun. Pretty soon more than two hundred friends and neighbors are gathering at the picnic to play games and eat soybeans together.
Unique illustrations painted on ceramic plates lend a quirky charm to this lighthearted intergenerational story. Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic is a delicious celebration of family traditions, culture, and community that will have readers asking for seconds, thirds, and more.
Advance Praise
STARRED REVIEW, KIRKUS REVIEWS:
"More warm family memories from the Chinese-American creators of Mahjong All Day Long (2005), with cheery illustrations painted on ceramic plates. . . . The simply drawn scenes of busy, festive groups reflect the narrative's happy tone, and they are capped with old snapshots from past gatherings in the afterword. The pleasure of finding unexpected links between a new country and the old suffuses this autobiographical outing."
STARRED REVIEW, BOOKLIST:
"Historical fiction, at its best, makes the specific universal. Here that happens. . . . This heartfelt story is absolutely delicious."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY:
"An intimate chronicle of a multigenerational family."
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781600604423 |
| PRICE | $18.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 32 |
