Author : Lenore Look
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780689812484
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (124 download)
Book Synopsis Love As Strong As Ginger by : Lenore Look
Download or read book Love As Strong As Ginger written by Lenore Look and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.