The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Chen, Chih-Yuan

On My Way to Buy Eggs

40 pp. | Kane/Miller | September, 2003 | Trade ISBN 1-929132-49-2 $$15.95

(2) K-3 Sent to the store to buy eggs, Shau-yu takes a circuitous walk through her neighborhood. Though the narrative in this Taiwanese import is in the third person, the perspective is completely that of a small child. The art--a combination of paper cutting, collage, and line drawing--is spare and clean. Text and illustrations reflect both the richness of a child's inner life and the way children experience the outside world.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2004