Routledge Literature Companions The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science, (Hardcover)

from Maria.Vasquez

The context from this book was very interesting because it clearly shows how kids understand differently from humans, especially stories. Also, it was amazing to see how Minli decides to go explore and experience the real world without any other intention but help her parents, Personally, I enjoy...

from oapostrophe

Minli's mother often sighs with dissatisfaction at her familiy's lack of wealth. Her father is a teller of stories. Minli loves to hear her father tell his stories. One day a goldfishman comes to their little town on Fruitless Mountain and Minli spends one of her two coins on a goldfish. Her moth...

from shelf-employed

Grace Lin, as talented an artist as she is an author, illustrates her own novels; and it shows in the way that her cover art and drawings so expertly convey the mystical, magical feeling of her book, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. The jacket art draws the reader in; and, thumbing through page...

from jfoster_sf

This was such a wonderful story! This is a story about Minli, a young girl from a poor village. Every night her father tells her fantastic stories, one being a story of the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answer to every question. She decides to leave home on a quest to find the Old Man on the...

from mirrani

An amazing book on Chinese culture that seamlessly blends the folk tales into "reality" as the main character, Minli, goes about making her way through the world to seek a fortune for her family based solely on the stories her father has told her in the past. Along the way we meet characters who ...