A New Year's Reunion: A Chinese Story - Couverture rigide

Li-Qiong, Yu

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ISBN 10 : 0763658812 ISBN 13 : 9780763658816

Editeur : Candlewick, 2011

Synopsis

Little Maomao's dad works many miles away...but he is coming home for New Year! Maomao and her mum are very excited. Who will find the coin that brings good fortune? Little Maomao's father works far away from the family home, so his return for New Year is a cause for celebration. Maomao and her mother welcome him back and together they enjoy the firecrackers and make sticky rice balls - in one of which Maomao finds the lucky fortune coin. But after watching the dragon dance and playing snowballs, Maomao discovers disaster has struck...where is the lucky coin? At first inconsolable to have lost it, Maomao is finally restored to happiness before her father must depart again. This title is a perfect gift for New Year. This is a heart-stirring portrait of the abiding bond between parent and child. It movingly conveys the separation endured by migrant-worker families the world over.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Two things make this Chinese New Year story remarkable-Zhu's meticulously observed gouaches and the family's poignant backstory...Yu and Zhu create a memorable portrait of China's most joyous holiday and a testimony to the love that holds Maomao's family together.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

This bittersweet and poignant story not only tells of a family celebrating a holiday, but also explores the trepidation and joy of a reunion... The story of an absent parent returning only during special occasions is one that speaks to more and more American children. The celebrations and traditions might differ, but the story of missing distant family is universal.
—School Library Journal (starred review)

Chinese New Year brings a young family joyously but all-too-briefly back together in this poignant import... simple patterns and bright red highlights give the inside and outside settings a particularly inviting look, and the artist captures the emotional backdrop with delicate clarity in her figures' postures and expressions.
—Kirkus Reviews

Appropriate for Chinese New Year, this exceptional family story will move readers at any time of the year and will resonate especially with children whose parents must leave their families for long periods of time.
—Booklist Online

The gouache paintings use lots of red and bright colors, with design elements like stripes, squares, and dots in the characters’ clothing and in the backgrounds, tying the pages together harmoniously. This is an excellent introduction to Chinese New Year as it is celebrated in China and also a poignant and thoughtful examination of the joys and sorrows of families living apart.
—The Horn Book

"Vibrant" hardly even begins to cover it here. These are colors, compositions and emotions that jump right off the page without wasting any time about it...The reds! Oh! The rich, deep reds! Cheng-Liang's detailed gouache illustrations are inviting, popping off the page with warmth and energy.
—Kirkus Reviews children's blog

Illustrations saturated with bright colors depict scenes in which a little girl finds her father's short-lived homecoming a joyous and bittersweet occasion as well as an opportunity to grow up.
—The Boston Globe

On the surface, this is a picture book about celebrating the Chinese New Year, but at its heart, it is a heartwarming story of homecoming, and about keeping a connection to home even when you're away from it...A love that will last the whole year through.
—Shelf Awareness

A story from China that is neither fable nor folk tale but an emotionally resonant contemporary picture of what countless small children must experience, in a society with as many as 100 million migrant workers.
—Wall Street Journal

Small pleasures do not hide the sense of sacrifice that grounds this tender and thoroughly realistic tale of family love.
—San Francisco Chronicle

A fascinating glimpse of this way of life.
—The Lutheran

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2011!

Maomao's dad works many miles away, but he is coming home for New Year!

Little Maomao's father works in faraway places and comes home just once a year, for Chinese New Year. At first Maomao barely recognizes him, but before long the family is happily making sticky rice balls, listening to firecrackers, and watching the dragon dance in the streets below. Papa gets a haircut, makes repairs to the house, and hides a lucky coin for Maomao to find. Which she does! But all too soon it is time for Papa to go away again. This poignant, vibrantly illustrated tale, which won the prestigious Feng Zikai Chinese Children's Picture Book Award in 2009, is sure to resonate with every child who misses relatives when they are away--and shows how a family's love is strong enough to endure over time and distance.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Candlewick
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0763658812
• ISBN 13: 9780763658816
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 40
• Illustrateur: Cheng-Liang Zhu