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Synopsis
A tasty, original story
This striking picture book ends with a new beginning for three people who never expected to be friends – an orphaned girl cast out by her siblings, a slave escaping from a mighty emperor’s ship, and a hunchbacked old woman known for the bitter-melon and shrimp dumplings she brings to market each day – and for living in a haunted house at the edge of the marshes. As their hardship-filled paths cross, each of their lives begins to change for the better, in a moving affirmation of the power of compassion.
Set long ago in a Chinese village by the sea, Jeanne M. Lee’s meticulously illustrated story has an extraordinary flavor all its own.
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About the Author
Jeanne M. Lee is the author and illustrator of many books, including The Song of Mu Lan and I Once Was a Monkey: Stories Buddha Told. She lives in Massachusetts.
From School Library Journal
Grade 2-5-In 15th-century China, living without the protection of her family could indeed be bitter for an unmarried woman. This historical adventure recounts the struggles and eventual triumph of two women cast out from their seaside village, living at the ocean's edge. After her father's death, motherless Mei Mei's older brothers appropriate her dowry and turn her out of the house. Desperate and starving, she begs food from Po Po, the grumpy old hunchback who sells bitter melon and shrimp dumplings at the village market. Po Po's grudging exchange of food and shelter for Mei Mei's help in preparing and selling dumplings evolves into friendship and then into love. When ships from the emperor's treasure fleet sail into the harbor, a handsome slave escapes and follows Mei Mei to Po Po's house. The old woman prevents his capture and offers the young couple her own dowry, hidden away for many years. Lee's large paintings, executed in harmonious, muted colors in her characteristic style, are steeped in the Chinese aesthetic. The art is best at depicting landscape: the restless sea and the windswept marshes at its edge. Generous in text, Lee's story seems ready to overflow the confines of a 32-page picture book, and the ending is rather abrupt. Yet this tale of two strong women realistically placed in the context of their times will certainly engage older picture-book listeners, inviting them to identify with characters who lived long ago and far away.
Margaret A. Chang, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams
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- PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0374399662
- ISBN 13 9780374399665
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorLee Jeanne M.
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