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Love As Strong As Ginger
Love As Strong As Ginger | Lenore Look
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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.
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#TemptingTitles Day 10: #WithAVeggie based on the author‘s own childhood memories of her Chinese immigrant grandmother who also worked in a Seattle cannery in the 1960s and 70s. It shows a significantly-moving portrait of the gritty backbone behind the American dream. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-7RN

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#FebruaryFeels Day 2: A different kind of #FaveLoveStory based on the author‘s own childhood memories of her Chinese immigrant grandmother who also worked in a Seattle cannery in the 1960s and 70s, as seen in the Author‘s Note found at the beginning of the book. Find this book and know how a dish can be “made with love as strong as ginger and dreams as thick as black-bean paste.” My review of this deeply moving story: https://wp.me/pDlzr-7RN