Rice

Have you ever eaten rice? Do you eat it every day? Do you know where it comes from? What we eat are grains of rice, called "Gu" in China. The husks of the grains are polished off, and the polished grains are called "Mi." Once those grains are cooked, they're called "Fan." A farmer has to raise all of the rice that we eat. Readers visit a farm and learn more about a hard-working rice farmer's life.

Hongcheng Yu has had her work chosen for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Her passion is revealing to children the richness and beauty of Chinese traditional culture by illustrating and writing books with authentic content. To create Rice, she lived in the mountains with rice farmers for two years to observe their traditional planting and harvesting cycle.