Rete Bibliotecaria Bergamasca

Abstract: Grandmother decides to leave her village to spend Chinese New Year in the town for the sake of her granddaughter Xiaoyue. Grandmother brings a gorgeous rooster for Xiaoyue, but Xiaoyue wants to raise it instead of cooking it into a pot of delicious chicken soup. But will the neighbors agree? How can a rooster be raised as a pet? Grandmother and the Rooster is a story on family love setting the background in Spring Festival, one of the traditional Chinese festivals. The author integrates all the Spring Festival customs, such as pasting spring couplets, paying new year's visit in the neighbourhood, hanging red lanterns, children's wearing new clothes and so on into the background of the story, and pushes the love of grandmother towards Xiaoyue, the kinship, the rural life fading from the memory of city people and the cherishing of childhood to the front stage of the story. It reflects people's recollection of the rural life and civilization they have experienced as well as their nostalgia for the past in the rural area, and expresses the light homesickness shared by people

Abstract: Xiao Le's grandmother lives in a faraway village. A visit with Grandma is always a special event, but this time she is frail. With encouragement from his mom, Xiao Le plays with and helps Grandma. When Grandma dies shortly thereafter, Xiao Le comforts his mom—reminding her that when it rains, Grandma is washing her clothes in the sky . . . and that although the Perfume Village in heaven cannot be reached by train, it can be accessed by the heart. Fang Suzhen’s moving story, with stunning illustrations by Sonja Danowski, is a powerful reminder that love transcends all