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Compestine, Ying Chang

Growing Up Under a Red Flag: A Memoir of Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution

40 pp. | Penguin/Rocky Pond | May, 2024 | Trade ISBN 9780593533987 $19.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Xinmei Liu. In this picture-book memoir, Compestine recounts her upbringing during China’s Cultural Revolution, which began in 1967 when she was three. Through audience-appropriate language, Compestine describes the terror her family experienced when her father was falsely arrested for being a spy. “Our door was kicked open. Comrade Li stormed inside.” Her story ends with hope as the Cultural Revolution is brought to a close and her father is released. Liu’s colorful ink illustrations convey the family’s anguish and despair along with moments of light. An author’s note is appended.
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