My Chinatown: One Year in Poems ebook

by Kam Mak

My Chinatown: A Year in Poems by Kam Mak will delight the eye and the ear. Readers of any ethnicity will enjoy the boy's stroll through the fascinating and exotic city. He struggles to understand how he can be in America and appreciate and feel connected to his native home in Hong Kong.

Included in Brightly. com's 2017 list of recommended diverse poetry picture books for kids.

Through seasonal poems and beautiful paintings, a boy compares life in America's Chinatown to his home in Hong Kong. Through seasonal poems and beautiful paintings, a boy compares life in America's Chinatown to his home in Hong Kong.

Select Format: Hardcover. ISBN13:9780064437325.

My China Town is a folklore that tells about Chinese culture like folk customs, art and people. It is a collection of poems and paintings done by author Kam Mak. The illustrations are wonderfu and lifelike; almost like photographs. It introduces what are typical Chinese people doing all the year, and what is China town looks like. This realism picture book uses pretty oil pictures tells China town is a place of dragons and dreams, full of wonder and magic and it is a home.

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Автор: Mak Kam Название: My Chinatown: One Year in Poems Издательство: HarperCollins USA .

My Chinatown is a critically acclaimed, spectacularly illustrated picture book homage to family, culture, and a childhood spent in one of the most striking places in any city-Chinatown. Kam Mak grew up in a place of two cultures, one existing within the other.

Chinatown - a place of dragons and dreams; fireflies and memories; Chinatown - full of wonder and .

Chinatown - a place of dragons and dreams; fireflies and memories; Chinatown - full of wonder and magic; fireworks on New Year's Day and a delicious smell on every corner; Chinatown - where every day brings something familiar and something wondrously new to a small boy; Chinatown - home? Kam Mak grew up in a place of two cultures, one existing within the other.

A boy adjusts to life away from his home in Hong Kong, in the Chinatown of his new American city. Publisher description. Emigration and immigration Fiction. Chinese Americans Fiction.

HarperCollins, (c)2002. Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ;, 22 x 29 cm. Summary, et. A boy adjusts to life away from his home in Hong Kong, in the Chinatown of his new American city. Geographic Name: Chinatown (New York, .

My Chinatown is a critically acclaimed, spectacularly illustrated picture book homage to family, culture, and a childhood spent in one of the most striking places in any city—Chinatown.

Kam Mak grew up in a place of two cultures, one existing within the other. Using extraordinarily beautiful paintings and moving poems, he shares a year of growing up in this small city within a city.

My Chinatown explores a boy's first year in the United States—after emigrating from China—as he grows to love his new home in Chinatown through food, games, and the people surrounding him. Through Kam Mak's spare verse and richly detailed artwork, the streets of Chinatown come vividly alive. Included in Brightly.com's 2017 list of recommended diverse poetry picture books for kids.

Chinatown—a place of dragons and dreams; fireflies and memoriesChinatown—full of wonder and magic; fireworks on New Year's Day and a delicious smell on every cornerChinatown—where every day brings something familiar and something wondrously new to a small boyChinatown—home?

Quamar

My Chinatown: A Year in Poems by Kam Mak will delight the eye and the ear. The imagery of the poems convey an appreciation for the energy and culture of Chinatown. Readers of any ethnicity will enjoy the boy's stroll through the fascinating and exotic city. He struggles to understand how he can be in America and appreciate and feel connected to his native home in Hong Kong. Chinese culture exists in Chinatown but its different from the way things are observed there. Any child who has ever moved, will identify with his longing for "home" in Hong Kong and the security and familiarity it represents.

Adoption-attuned Lens: This book will resonate with internationally adopted kids via the boy's sense of yearning for "home"--for the way it smells, looks, sounds, and the way things are done there. His struggle to feel at home in America will connect with that rootlessness that many adoptees feel, (even those who were adopted domestically.)
Another "note" which will connect with many adoptees is that struggle to blend a dual heritage into a unified whole that results from valuing and merging both.
—Gayle H. Swift, “ABC, Adoption & Me, A Multicultural Picture Book”

VAZGINO

If you have only a few, treasured children's books on your shelf, My Chinatown should be one of them. Rarely does a picture book ever exceed the level of entertainment or visual treat and amusement to ascend to a realm where, well, you get tingles while experiencing it. And this book must be held in your hands and consumed. Each page is a frameable work of imaginative, breathtakingly beautiful art. Each poem is a vignette of life in Chinatown, complete with all the sensory details in a few lines. Like Matisse's few strokes that reveal a cat, Kam Mak's writing reveals entire scenes that come to life simply, remarkably. Even if I did not have a child, I would love to have this book on my coffee table. Reminiscent of Chris Van Allsburg (Polar Express, Jumaniji) where elegant, spare writing and outstanding art work combine to make magic. My Chinatown is miraculous.

Skunk Black

'My Chinatown' is a beautiful book about a young boy who misses his old home in China and how he is slowly discovering his new neighborhood- Chinatown. The beautiful pictures in the book are bright and bold with simple prose to guide the reader on this young boys adventure. The book is broken down by seasons as the young boys describes the transformation his neighborhood takes during various times of the year.

I brought a copy of this book home very well expecting it to go on the bookshelf and to languish there until my son got older. I was pleasantly surprised that even at 18-months my toddler gravitated to the book and enjoys looking at the artwork. It is wonderful to share this book with him; he likes the picture of the kumquats. This is a beautiful book with brilliantly bright artwork and a wonderful gift for a child or adult.

LoboThommy

"My Chinatown: One Year in Poems," by Kam Mak, is a truly beautiful blend of poetry and visual artwork. The simple, straightforward poems tell about life in Chinatown for a young boy whose family has emigrated from Hong Kong to the United States. The poems are accompanied by richly colored illustrations. A sample of the writing style: "If you have money in your pocket, / you're never hungry / in Chinatown."
The illustrations capture many memorable images: a bunch of colorful kumquats, a cobbler at work, colorful dragon boats, and more. This book is a wonderful celebration of the people, food, and cultural events of Chinatown.

Rko

The author does an amazing job of capturing the emotions and attachments of his childhood between Hong Kong and New York. The poems are sad, happy, and full of keen observations. The illustrations are beautiful. A favorite...