A New Year's Reunion by Yu Li-Qiong
Little Maomao s dad works many miles away but he is coming home for New Year! Maomao and her mum are very excited. Who will find the coin that brings good fortune? Little Maomao s father works far away from the family home, so his return for New Year is a cause for celebration. Maomao and her mother welcome him back and together they enjoy the firecrackers and make sticky rice balls in one of which Maomao finds the lucky fortune coin. But after watching the dragon dance and playing snowballs, Maomao discovers disaster has struck ... where is the lucky coin? At first inconsolable to have lost it, Maomao is finally restored to happiness before her father must depart again.
Two things make this Chinese New Year story remarkable - Zhu's meticulously observed gouaches and the family's poignant backstory.. Yu and Zhu create a memorable portrait of China's most joyous holiday. (Publishers Weekly) 'Vibrant' hardly even begins to cover it here. These are colors, compositions and emotions that jump right off the page without wasting any time about it... The reds! Oh! The rich, deep reds! Cheng-Liang's detailed gouache illustrations are inviting, popping off the page with warmth and energy. (Kirkus Review)
Yu Li-Qiong was born in China's Anhui Province in 1980. A member of the Chinese Institute of Prose, she has published more than a hundred thousand words of writing in prose and novels since 1996. She lives in Nanjing, China.
Born in Shanghai in 1948, Zhu Cheng Liang is Deputy Chief Editor at the Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House. His previous works include the comic strip Catching the Thief (1983), based on Erich K stner s Emil and the Detectives, and Flashing Rabbit-shaped Lamp (1984), which won an Honourable Mention by UNESCO s Noma Concours for Children s Picture Book Illustration. He lives in Nanjing.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781406338577 |
| ISBN 10 | 1406338575 |
| Title | A New Year's Reunion |
| Author | Yu Li-Qiong |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Walker Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |