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Quan, Elizabeth
2 Reviews
(3)
4-6
Quan's tender memories of the two years her Canadian family spent visiting her grandmother in a remote southern Chinese village comprise the vignettes in this slender volume. Charming watercolor illustrations embody details from her anecdotes of school, holidays, adventures, and other small glimpses of the family's time in the village. The stories are fascinating but won't attract a wide young audience.
Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin
(4)
4-6
Quan describes her family's journey in the 1920s from Toronto to southern China to visit the grandmother she'd never met. Her account, with its vivid, well-chosen details, touches on her own emotions as well as those of her father, though some passages are wordy and a bit sentimental. Watercolor illustrations depict each step of Quan's experience.
Reviewer: Martha Sibert
2 reviews
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