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Laura G. Lee
This picture book explores soy sauce as a food made in many forms across Asia. Luan prepares a Chinese version, while Haru works with a family recipe at a Japanese brewery and Yoo-mi makes a Korean sauce with ingredients that create spicy and sweet flavors. Different places use their own ingredients and methods, and brewing can last for years or even decades. The illustrations include soy sauce as a painting material.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Have a Good Trip, Mousse!Claire LebourgAfter a rainy morning leaves Mousse with few shells and no companions at the beach, he heads south for a vacation. He invites his friend Barnacle, and together they enjoy sand, swimming, a mud bath, and other holiday pleasures. Their trip changes when Felix joins them. Mousse feels jealous as Barnacle befriends the newcomer, and a conflict follows when Felix laughs at Mousse’s nickname. Later, Mousse and Felix connect over their shared interest in collecting seashells.Books for Newly Independent ReadersOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Returning the Sword: How a Japanese Sword of War Became a Symbol of Friendship and PeaceCaren StelsonAfter World War II, Captain Orval Amdahl returned to Minnesota with a Japanese sword given to him as a military souvenir. He had witnessed the devastation in Nagasaki and continued to wonder about the sword and its owner. Decades later, a researcher helped identify the family of the Japanese soldier who had owned it. Letters led to a 2013 ceremony in which Amdahl returned the sword to the owner’s son, Tadahiro Motomura.Historical People, Places, and EventsOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Steve: A Rare EggKelly CollierWhile eating leftover cake in a picnic area, Steve the horse finds a smooth, oval thingamabob. He decides it must be an egg, even though he has never seen a red egg before, and concludes that it is extremely rare. Certain that he knows how eggs should be cared for, Steve takes responsibility for it while trying to find its parents.Five to NineLexile Text Measure GN530LATOS Book Level 3.5On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details