![]() ![]() If there's any author out there today with the potential of being remembered and beloved 100 years down the line, Grace Lin has my vote. With her customary cleverness Lin has now taken the essence of those tales and woven them into a quest novel that is a mix of contemporary smart girl pizzazz and the feel of a classic that your parents were read as children. As Grace Lin explains in her Author's Note to Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, some of the books she read at eleven were dozens upon dozens of Chinese folktale and fairytale stories. If they were partial to The Wizard of Oz they could do as Salman Rushdie did when he wrote Haroun and the Sea of Stories. If they were Alice in Wonderland fans they might go the route of Neil Gaiman's Coraline. When an author wants to write their first fantasy novel for children, they'll sometimes fall back on the books they themselves loved as kids. Overall, this book is a must-read fantasy book! I’m already looking forward to reading this again. ![]() Where the Mountain Meets to Moon has a lot of short chapters and short paragraphs which keeps the story flowing. Look at that cover! It is one of the most beautiful covers that I have ever seen. It has several stories within the main story teaching a moral lesson, many of them very beautiful. It has all of the things that I love: great storytelling, strong female characters doing important things (not talking about boys), incredibly moving, imaginative, and original. This is the first fantasy book that I have ever read that has made me cry multiple times. Along the way, she will meet a variety of characters including a dragon. Her father fills Minli with tales, and one day Minli goes on an epic quest to find The Old Man of the Moon to change her fortune. Her family just barely has enough rice, and her mother is always sighing with discontent. Minli, a young girl, toils relentlessly every day, working the unforgiving, barren land, and making dinner for her family. ![]()
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