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Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen

Debbi Michiko Florence, illustrated by Elizabet Vuković

Eight-year-old Japanese American Jasmine Toguchi wants to help prepare mochi for the New Year. Her family tradition says girls begin participating when they are ten, and assigns different parts of the work to women and men. When her mother and Obaachan will not let her shape the mochi, Jasmine asks her father to let her help pound the rice. The work proves much harder than she expected as she persists in trying to join the celebration.

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Themes
Cultural Heritage · Family · Food And Cooking · Holidays And Celebrations
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published
July 11, 2017
ISBN-13
9780374308346
Language
English
Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin–MadisonCCBC Choices
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