I grew up on tales of Paul Bunyan, and like the amazingly talented author of this graphic novel, also did not see anyone who looked like me in any of the depictions of the white logging camps. The drawing style is warm and simple, as is the tale's language - but there's a lot for adults to find here where the younger folks just enjoy the stories (and reminders of good pie!). I predict kids will come back to this book as adults and find even more for them then.
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1880s, a teen, her dad, their friends in a logging camp
Bought for: 10, 12,16 yr olds. I ran across this book shortly after a friend in one of my outdoors groups had visited a historic mining camp site in the PNW woods. I just had to read it and loved it on the kindle phone app. I bought a regular paper edition for my favorite kid and teen readers. Paper copy was thicker and more booklike than I expected, with matte paper suitable for Shing Yin Khor's watercolor illustrations. Somehow I was thinking those slim glossy paper Spiderman collections. The kids loved it. I gave them 5 books, on our next visit, this was the one they wanted to talk about. Writing style: aimed at middle graders. Mei and her friend are both early middle teens. There is a death, it's logging related. Strife between immigrant groups is incorporated into the story. Mei wishes her friend was not so interested in boys and marriage. As an adult who loves history, folktales and myth, and nature, this was a fun way to expand my knowledge. Mei's adaptation of the classic Paul Bunyan archetypes into Auntie Po and her blue water buffalo was lovely. If you love mythology and how stories get remade through time by new storytellets, this is a must read.
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- Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2023Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
Bought for: 10, 12,16 yr olds.
1880s, a teen, her dad, their friends in a logging camp
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2023
I ran across this book shortly after a friend in one of my outdoors groups had visited a historic mining camp site in the PNW woods. I just had to read it and loved it on the kindle phone app. I bought a regular paper edition for my favorite kid and teen readers. Paper copy was thicker and more booklike than I expected, with matte paper suitable for Shing Yin Khor's watercolor illustrations. Somehow I was thinking those slim glossy paper Spiderman collections.
The kids loved it. I gave them 5 books, on our next visit, this was the one they wanted to talk about.
Writing style: aimed at middle graders. Mei and her friend are both early middle teens. There is a death, it's logging related. Strife between immigrant groups is incorporated into the story. Mei wishes her friend was not so interested in boys and marriage.
As an adult who loves history, folktales and myth, and nature, this was a fun way to expand my knowledge. Mei's adaptation of the classic Paul Bunyan archetypes into Auntie Po and her blue water buffalo was lovely. If you love mythology and how stories get remade through time by new storytellets, this is a must read.
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