{"id":40426,"date":"2024-05-24T19:53:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T23:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40426"},"modified":"2024-05-24T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T23:53:41","slug":"review-of-the-legend-of-auntie-po-by-shing-yin-khor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40426","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Legend of Auntie Po, by Shing Yin Khor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/legend_of_auntie_po_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/legend_of_auntie_po_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40430\" \/><\/a><em>The Legend of Auntie Po<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Shing Yin Khor<\/p>\n<p>Kokila (Penguin Random House), 2021.  290 pages.<br \/>\nReview written November 4, 2021, from a library book<br \/>\nNational Book Award Finalist<\/p>\n<p><em>The Legend of Auntie Po<\/em> is a graphic novel set in 1885 in a logging camp in the California mountains.  Mei is thirteen, and her father is the cook for the camp.  The owner of the operation treats them as friends, and Mei\u2019s best friend is the owner\u2019s daughter, but overall the Chinese workers aren\u2019t treated as well as everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mei makes the best pies and tells the best stories.  She makes up stories about Auntie Po, a giant Chinese matriarch who looks out for her people, with the help of Pei Pei, her blue water buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>But when trouble comes to the logging camp, Mei actually sees Auntie Po helping them.<\/p>\n<p>The historical detail in this graphic novel makes you feel like it could have really happened.  Mei\u2019s a lovable character, and it\u2019s lovely as her horizons open up as she and her father get through some tough things with friendship and determination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.com\/children\/\">penguin.com\/kids<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0525554890\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n<p>*Note* To try to catch up on posting reviews, I\u2019m posting the oldest reviews I\u2019ve written on my blog without making a page on my main website. They\u2019re still good books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor Kokila (Penguin Random House), 2021. 290 pages. Review written November 4, 2021, from a library book National Book Award Finalist The Legend of Auntie Po is a graphic novel set in 1885 in a logging camp in the California mountains. Mei is thirteen, and her father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,37,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-graphic-novel","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40426"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43820,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40426\/revisions\/43820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}