Dumpling Soup
Written by: Jama Kim Rattigan
Illustrated by: Lillian Hsu-Flanders
Elementary Grades
"Each year, the women in Marisa's family, living in the Hawaiian islands, gather to prepare dumplings (``mandoo'') for the New Year's celebration--and this year Marisa is old enough to help. After she's wrapped her dumplings, she worries throughout the New Year's Eve festivities with her large clan (mostly Korean) that they aren't good enough; but then Grandma makes Marisa's dumplings a featured part of the first meal of the new year. It seems grudging to apply words like ``didactic'' to such an openhearted exercise in multiculturalism, but the book's packaging--including a publisher's note explaining the importance of diversity--is so insistent that it nearly sinks the capable storytelling and illustration."
Kirkus Book Reviews
Web Resources:
http://www.jamakimrattigan.com/dumpling_soup_8849.htm
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