Bought for: 10, 12,16 yr olds.
I ran across this book shortly after a friend in one of my outdoors groups had visited a historic mining camp site in the PNW woods. I just had to read it and loved it on the kindle phone app. I bought a regular paper edition for my favorite kid and teen readers. Paper copy was thicker and more booklike than I expected, with matte paper suitable for Shing Yin Khor's watercolor illustrations. Somehow I was thinking those slim glossy paper Spiderman collections.
The kids loved it. I gave them 5 books, on our next visit, this was the one they wanted to talk about.
Writing style: aimed at middle graders. Mei and her friend are both early middle teens. There is a death, it's logging related. Strife between immigrant groups is incorporated into the story. Mei wishes her friend was not so interested in boys and marriage.
As an adult who loves history, folktales and myth, and nature, this was a fun way to expand my knowledge. Mei's adaptation of the classic Paul Bunyan archetypes into Auntie Po and her blue water buffalo was lovely. If you love mythology and how stories get remade through time by new storytellets, this is a must read.
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1880s, a teen, her dad, their friends in a logging camp
Bought for: 10, 12,16 yr olds.I ran across this book shortly after a friend in one of my outdoors groups had visited a historic mining camp site in the PNW woods. I just had to read it and loved it on the kindle phone app. I bought a regular paper edition for my favorite kid and teen readers. Paper copy was thicker and more booklike than I expected, with matte paper suitable for Shing Yin Khor's watercolor illustrations. Somehow I was thinking those slim glossy paper Spiderman collections.The kids loved it. I gave them 5 books, on our next visit, this was the one they wanted to talk about.Writing style: aimed at middle graders. Mei and her friend are both early middle teens. There is a death, it's logging related. Strife between immigrant groups is incorporated into the story. Mei wishes her friend was not so interested in boys and marriage.As an adult who loves history, folktales and myth, and nature, this was a fun way to expand my knowledge. Mei's adaptation of the classic Paul Bunyan archetypes into Auntie Po and her blue water buffalo was lovely. If you love mythology and how stories get remade through time by new storytellets, this is a must read.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2023
I ran across this book shortly after a friend in one of my outdoors groups had visited a historic mining camp site in the PNW woods. I just had to read it and loved it on the kindle phone app. I bought a regular paper edition for my favorite kid and teen readers. Paper copy was thicker and more booklike than I expected, with matte paper suitable for Shing Yin Khor's watercolor illustrations. Somehow I was thinking those slim glossy paper Spiderman collections.
The kids loved it. I gave them 5 books, on our next visit, this was the one they wanted to talk about.
Writing style: aimed at middle graders. Mei and her friend are both early middle teens. There is a death, it's logging related. Strife between immigrant groups is incorporated into the story. Mei wishes her friend was not so interested in boys and marriage.
As an adult who loves history, folktales and myth, and nature, this was a fun way to expand my knowledge. Mei's adaptation of the classic Paul Bunyan archetypes into Auntie Po and her blue water buffalo was lovely. If you love mythology and how stories get remade through time by new storytellets, this is a must read.
1880s, a teen, her dad, their friends in a logging camp
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2023
Bought for: 10, 12,16 yr olds.Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2023
I ran across this book shortly after a friend in one of my outdoors groups had visited a historic mining camp site in the PNW woods. I just had to read it and loved it on the kindle phone app. I bought a regular paper edition for my favorite kid and teen readers. Paper copy was thicker and more booklike than I expected, with matte paper suitable for Shing Yin Khor's watercolor illustrations. Somehow I was thinking those slim glossy paper Spiderman collections.
The kids loved it. I gave them 5 books, on our next visit, this was the one they wanted to talk about.
Writing style: aimed at middle graders. Mei and her friend are both early middle teens. There is a death, it's logging related. Strife between immigrant groups is incorporated into the story. Mei wishes her friend was not so interested in boys and marriage.
As an adult who loves history, folktales and myth, and nature, this was a fun way to expand my knowledge. Mei's adaptation of the classic Paul Bunyan archetypes into Auntie Po and her blue water buffalo was lovely. If you love mythology and how stories get remade through time by new storytellets, this is a must read.
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