Kid Review: Mooncakes Mean Family by Benson Shum

 

About This Book:

Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with this sweet story of food and family!

 

In this story designed to engage early readers, charming characters combine with simple text, lively illustrations, and laugh-out-loud humor to help boost kids’ confidence and create lifelong readers!

Jade and Crystal love the Mid-Autumn Festival because it means it’s time to make a tasty treat—mooncakes! Crystal’s favorite part of the delicious dessert made of lotus seed paste is the yummy salted egg yolk at the center, meant to represent the moon. Join the sisters as they gather with their family for a memorable meal together!

Complete with fun facts about the holiday in the back of the book, young readers will want to revisit this story again and again.

Exciting, easy-to-read books are the stepping stone a young reader needs to bridge the gap between being a beginner and being fluent.

 

*Review Contributed By Rachel Feeck, Staff Reviewer*

Bunnies and mooncakes equal adorable

Jade and Crystal rabbit are celebrating Mid-Autumn festival. The sisters can’t wait to make tasty mooncakes and enjoy the day with family.

I grew up eating mooncake for Mid-Autumn festival, but I never learned more about the traditions or event. This book is an awesome way to start. Jade and Crystal’s mom teaches them about the meaning of the holiday, and the rest of the family joins in too. I love the blend of Chinese and bunny culture in the illustrations, and bunny Chang’e and Hou Yi? Stop. Too cute.

This story also illustrates how holidays and traditions can bring family together, whether they live close or far apart. Although Jade and Crystal know some family cannot come to dinner, they still feel close to them because they know that the family is all celebrating the same event and looking at the same moon, wherever they may be.

 

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