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Schlaikjer, Erica Lee

Wild Greens, Beautiful Girl

40 pp. | Sleeping Bear | July, 2024 | Trade ISBN 9781534113152 $18.99
(3) K-3 Translated by Shan Li Bannai Serasis. Illustrated by Cinyee Chiu. A girl and her mother tend to their garden in Taiwan as a typhoon approaches. Their simple, pastoral interaction is about preparing dinner, but the garden stands in for connection to the land and history. The text is in English with Chinese and Pinyin translations and also includes a few words in Amis, an Indigenous language of her family that the young protagonist is learning. Half the illustrations are lush, beautiful images of the landscape, and the other half are starker, sketchlike grayscale images, reflecting the coming rain.
Reviewer: Miriam Steinberg-Egeth

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