First Apple - Hardcover

Russell, Ching Yeung

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563972069 ISBN 13: 9781563972065

Publisher: Boyds Mills Pr, 1994

Synopsis

The author describes 1940s China and her quest, as a nine-year-old girl, to buy a precious apple for her grandmother's birthday. By the author of A Day on a Shrimp Boat.

About this title

About the Author:

Ching Yeung Russell is the Winner of the 2012 Scholastic Asian Book Award for her book, Bungee Cord Hair. She was born and raised by her grandmother in Guangdong, China, and later moved to Hong Kong to join her family as a teenager. She worked as a teacher of Chinese Literature and a freelance writer, and has done presentations at ALA, IRA and other literary gatherings as well as author s visits in various states. Ching wrote a series of four middle-grade novels (both in English and Chinese) and a picture book based on her childhood in China. She currently resides in Simpsonville, South Carolina with her husband, Phil Russell. They have two sons, Jonathan and Jeremy and a grandbaby, Blake."

Synopsis:

A young girl living in a Chinese village in the 1940s tries to find a way to buy an apple, the fruit of rich people, to share with her grandmother.

About this edition

• Publisher: Boyds Mills Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1563972069
• ISBN 13: 9781563972065
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 127
• Illustrator: Zhong-Yuan Zhang Christopher