Title: Where the Mountain Meets the MoonAuthor: Grace Lin
Annie got Where the Mountain Meets the Moon for Christmas, and since it was one of the most buzzed-about middle grade books of 2010, I decided to read it while Annie was engrossed in her last day of lazing about the house watching iCarly and House of Anubis.
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon recounts the story of Minli, a young girl living in the shadow of Fruitless Mountain with her overworked father and sighing mother. Each night, after working hard in the rice paddies, Minli looks forward to hearing her father's fantastic tales. Minli decides that she can better her family's life by setting out to meet the man in the moon, and on the way she encounters the characters from those tales to help her on her way.
While the stories in Where the Mountain Meets the Moon were engrossing and the book teaches exactly the kind of message that I want my middle grade readers to encounter, what I will remember most about the book is Lin's skill not only as a writer, but also as an artist. The book is beautifully illustrated by the author, and each page is richly printed in multiple colors. Now that Annie's winter break is over, I'll be pushing her to start reading this book.
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My fifth grader was the first one at her school to get to check this book out from the library when it was new and she loved it so much that her teacher read it out loud to the class.
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