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This tribute to family, community, and childhood features the familiar streets of Chinatown, its people, its storefronts, its smells, and its sounds. With stunning, realistic illustrations and simple, vivid poetry, readers enter a wonderful place where two cultures meet and live side by side. Full-color illustrations.
Chinatown?a place of dragons and dreams, fireflies and memories. Chinatown?full of wonder and magic, fireworks on New Year's Day, and a delicious smell on every corner. Chinatown?where every day brings something familiar and something wondrously new to a small boy.
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Produktbeschreibung
This tribute to family, community, and childhood features the familiar streets of Chinatown, its people, its storefronts, its smells, and its sounds. With stunning, realistic illustrations and simple, vivid poetry, readers enter a wonderful place where two cultures meet and live side by side. Full-color illustrations.
Chinatown?a place of dragons and dreams, fireflies and memories. Chinatown?full of wonder and magic, fireworks on New Year's Day, and a delicious smell on every corner. Chinatown?where every day brings something familiar and something wondrously new to a small boy. Chinatown?home! Kam Mak grew up in a place of two cultures, one existing within the other. Using extraordinarily beautiful paintings and moving poems, he shares a year of growing up in this small city within a city called Chinatown.
Autorenporträt
Kam Mak grew up in New York City's Chinatown. He earned his bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of Visual Arts, and since then he has illustrated book jackets for numerous publishers and taught painting at the Fashion Institute of Technology. He has also illustrated The Moon of the Monarch Butterflies by Jean Craighead George, The Year of the Panda by Miriam Schlein, and The Dragon Prince by Laurence Yep. Kam Mak lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, son, and daughter.