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My Chinatown: One Year in Poems
Contributor(s): Mak, Kam (Author), Mak, Kam (Illustrator)

ISBN: 0060291907 ISBN-13: 9780060291907
Publisher: HarperCollins

OUR PRICE: $15.29

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2001
* Out of Print *

Annotation: This tribute to family, community, and childhood features the familiar streets of Chinatown, its people, its storefronts, its smells, and its sounds. With stunning, realistic illustrations and simple, vivid poetry, readers enter a wonderful place where two cultures meet and live side by side. Full-color illustrations.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Asian American
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Emigration & Immigration

Dewey: E

LCCN: 2001016686

Age Level: 4-8

Grade Level: PreK-3

Physical Information: 0.37" H x 11.31" W x 8.84" L (0.86 lbs) 32 pages

Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
- Ethnic Orientation - Chinese
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.

Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product

Awards: Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007), Winner, Recommended, 2002

Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 11/01/2001 pg. 1553
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2001 pg. 147
Booklist 12/01/2001 pg. 644
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2001 pg. 175 - Recommended, Satisfactory
School Library Journal 05/01/2002 pg. 122
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2003 pg. 798
ALA Notable Children's Books 03/15/2003 pg. 1308
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2002 pg. 175 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 55713
Reading Level: 3.8 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
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. Using extraordinarily beautiful paintings and moving poems, he shares a year of growing up in this small city within a city, which is called Chinatown.

Contributor Bio(s): Mak, Kam: -

Kam Mak grew up in New York City's Chinatown. He earned his bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of Visual Arts, and since then he has illustrated book jackets for numerous publishers and taught painting at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

He has also illustrated The Moon of the Monarch Butterflies by Jean Craighead George, The Year of the Panda by Miriam Schlein, and The Dragon Prince by Laurence Yep. Kam Mak lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, son, and daughter.

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