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Author: Rosemary Wells
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Year of publish: c1998
Audience: Aged 3-7
Subject: Social acceptance
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This book has won awards of Booklist Editors'
Choice - Books for Youth - Young Readers Category in 1998 and School Library Journal
Best Books in1998.
The storyline is simple and issue-oriented. It is
about a Japanese cat character Yoko brought her favorite Sushi to school for
lunch, but her classmates were shocked and teasing her after seeing the raw
fish and green seaweed. The rejection stopped until one boy have tried her food. This issue can be related to many immigrants. Children can learn the
importance of cultural acceptances from the story.
The story contains lots of conversations with minimal text. Children can be easy to understand food talks at age of 3-7.The book features animals in different
culture groups. Rosemary Wells is a popular author and illustrator of a few children books. Her
style of animal illustrations makes the story more interesting.
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