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From Publishers Weekly
Like a 17th-century poem, this high-toned story about why a family chooses to move to another country rests on a single, extended metaphor. Unfortunately, the book ultimately sinks under the weight of its poetic abstractions. Pak (Dear Juno) introduces the book's theme when the girl narrator says that her father, like a springtime seed, "flew a long way to grow into our family." Truong alternates warm renderings of the girl and her father planting a lush garden in their new homeland with illustrations of the hardships endured in the Asian country from which he emigrated. The repeated and often forced analogy between seeds and people carries political freight beyond the knowledge of most children (the father tells the girl a seed needs rain to grow, but "the rain that fell on our seed came only now and then,/ and sometimes not at all./.../ That is what it is like when there are too many workers/ and not enough work"). The leap from rainfall to unemployment, or from a seed/person needing "good land," but not "too many guns and not enough love" may be asking too much of some readers. The book ends on a cozy, if didactic note, as the father remembers his father saying, "There will always be a garden in my heart for you." While the book's heartfelt sentiments may appeal to some, its preachy tone and strained images will likely confuse young readers. Ages 4-10.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
A family is like a seed. It needs a place to set down roots. But sometimes the land where it rests is hard and cold, without welcome or nourishment. Then the family must flee to a new place, where it can finally blossom. As a father and daughter are working together in their garden, he explains what a seed needs to flourish and the reasons their family immigrated to a new country - looking for hope, like sunlight, and peace, like good earth. Looking for a place to grow.
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Teaching Kids to Think
2002/11/5
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I disagree with the PW review of Pak's latest book, A Place to Grow. The reviewer suggests that the majority of children cannot understand the political undertones of immigration. I tend to think that the thousands of children who arrive in this country as they and their families flee political and economic persecution might disagree with such a blanket statement. As a 5th grade teacher, I rely on all types of books, including many picture books, to illustrate important social, economic, and political aspects of the world. Pak uses images familar to many children (a seed and garden) to explain why her family came to this country from South Korea. While it's true that young children would have trouble understanding the political overtones of this book on their own, it doesn't mean these issues can't be shared and explained. Older children (8,9,10 and up) are quite capable of pulling meaning from a story like Pak's, and connect the issues it raises to their own lives and the larger world. A Place To Grow tells an important and very real story.
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Young Immigrants Featured Review
2004/12/6
形式:ハードカバー
Moving back and forth deftly between an American garden to scenes in the author's native Korea, this picture book tells the story of how one family finds a new place to thrive in America. Five full-spread illustrations take us back to a more dangerous and sorrowful time, when this family experienced violence, lack of opportunity, unemployment, and disruption. With a turn of the page, though, we return to the warmth and safety of a Father's love and a growing garden. Using a few, well-chosen metaphors, Soyung Pak's words and Marcelino Truong's paintings will help young children grasp the concept of being transplanted so that you can grow. The author and illustrator team also manage to express the mixed emotions of a young immigrant's life -- poignant farewells, hopeful fresh starts, strong family ties, and insecurity about the future.
What an amazing book
2011/2/12
形式:ハードカバー
My mom got this book to read for my 4 yr old son from the library. As I was reading it to him that night, I felt a very assuring sense of comfort of having done something right. Being a first generation immigrant myself, I found that this was such an awesome book to tell kids why we are where we are and where we came from. One story in words and 2 very different interpretations at the same time - Hats off to the authors.. You have done a marvelous job.
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