![]() ![]() She also is told by other children that Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz can’t be Asian, so she decides not to audition at a school play. Her friend sticks up for her, and when they go into the cafeteria, she finds that there is another Taiwanese girl who just started at their school! Lin does include microaggression, for example a cafeteria worker accuses her of going through the line twice. I learned this the hard way and am glad our children will learn through an adorable book instead. One of the best parts about this is that early on Pacy explains how she is Taiwanese, but to many people that means she’s Chinese, and how her parents speak both languages. The stories allowed Pacy to be connected even if many of her relatives live far away. These stories were realistic fiction instead of fantasy, but they worked the same way and I greatly enjoyed them. Anyway, this story tells about one year in Pacy’s life, starting with the Lunar New Year for the Year of the Dog and ending with the Lunar New Year for the Year of the Pig.Īn aspect of this I didn’t expect was how there were stories embedded into the larger narrative, just like Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. I may have been saving it or planning to wait until we got another in the series, I’m just not sure. ![]() This is one of those books that I’ve had for a while but didn’t pick up. In the Year of the Dog, Pacy is supposed to find her best friend and figure out her talent. ![]() Little, Brown, and Co, Hachette Book Group, New York, 2006 (my edition 2007). ![]()
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