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32 pp.
| Crocodile
| June, 2002
|
TradeISBN 1-56656-455-7$$15.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Grace Lin.
To Yenyee, the Pacific Ocean capriciously changes people's lives. In China, her fisherman father is lost in a storm, despite her tossing in her beloved jade necklace as an offering. After immigrating to Canada alone, she saves a drowning friend, and the sea returns the pendant and indirectly reunites her with her mother and brother. The story is told with lyrical symbolism and complemented by folkloric illustrations.
112 pp.
| Groundwood
| September, 2002
|
TradeISBN 0-88899-475-3$$14.95
(1)
4-6
Illustrated by
Harvey Chan.
These ten original ghost stories, alternately tragic, ironic, and gentle, are informed by two millennia of Chinese tales about wandering souls. Chinese-Canadian archivist and storyteller Yee dramatizes the killing work, the broken dreams, the humiliation, loneliness, heartbreak, and loss experienced by Southern-Chinese immigrants to North America over the past one hundred years. A rough-hewn black-and-white illustration introduces each story.
Reviewer: Margaret A. Chang
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2003
32 pp.
| Orca
| January, 2000
|
TradeISBN 1-55143-168-8$$14.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Janet Wilson.
After Ian's parents break up, Ian and his mother leave their farm for the city. Ian feels lonely and homesick, but then he gets to know Mr. Mah, an elderly Chinese man who has also suffered losses. Mr. Mah starts Ian on a garden, and their friendship helps them both make the transition to a new life. The realistic watercolor illustrations for this Canadian story include sensitive portraits of Ian and his older friend.