| Love as Strong as Ginger Contributor(s): Johnson, Stephen T. (Illustrator), Look, Lenore (Author) |
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ISBN: 0689812485 ISBN-13: 9780689812484 Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1999 Annotation: A Chinese-American girl comes to realize how hard her grandmother works to fulfill her dreams when they spend a day together at the cannery cracking crabs. Full color. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Multigenerational - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Asian American - Juvenile Fiction | Cooking & Food |
| Dewey: E |
| LCCN: 96043459 |
| Lexile Measure: 660 |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 7.84" W x 8.82" (0.63 lbs) 32 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese - Topical - Family |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 34825 Reading Level: 3.6 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Katie loves to show her grandma how to dress a Barbie...and GninGnin loves to show Katie how to make rice dumplings. More than anything, Katie longs to go with GninGnin to work, to crack a mountain of crabs alongside her at the crab cannery. One day Katie gets her wish, but nothing is the way she'd imagined it. GninGnin swings a heavy mallet from sunup to sundown in a noisy, smelly room, earning barely enough for bus fare and a fish for dinner. That evening, when Katie eats the delicious meal that GninGnin has cooked -- made with love as strong as ginger and dreams as thick as black-bean paste -- she has a new understanding of her beloved grandma's hard life, and the sacrifices she's made to give her granddaughter a brighter future. All the poignancy of Lenore Look's beautifully realized story -- based on her own childhood memories of her Chinese immigrant grandmother -- is captured in Caldecott Honor Medalist Stephen T. Johnson's sensitive, expressive pastels. |
Contributor Bio(s): Johnson, Stephen T.: - Stephen T. Johnson is the creator of such well-known children's books as My Little Red Toolbox, a Publishers Weekly bestseller; My Little Blue Robot, a Newsweek Holiday pick; A is for Art: An Abstract Alphabet, an ALA Notable and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year; and Alphabet City, recipient of a Caldecott Honor, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, and a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. His artwork can be found in permanent and public collections including the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the DeKalb Avenue Subway Station in Brooklyn, New York, the Universal Metro Station in Los Angeles, California, and Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas. Stephen is a professor at the University of Kansas and he lives in Lawrence, Kansas. Please visit him at StephenTJohnson.com.Look, Lenore: - Lenore Look is the author of Ruby Lu, Brave and True, an ALA Notable Book; Love As Strong As Ginger, illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Stephen T. Johnson; and Henry's First-Moon Birthday, illustrated by Yumi Heo. She lives in Randolph, New Jersey. |