First Apple.

Russell, Ching Yeung, with Christopher Zhong-Yuan Zhang (illustrations)

ISBN 10: 1563972069 / ISBN 13: 9781563972065

Published by Honesdale, Boyds Mill Press, (1994)., 1994

About this Item

First edition (stated). Orig. cloth (reinforced trade edition, according to the dust jacket front flap). Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a crease near the bottom of the rear panel. Inscribed by the author on the blank page facing the title page with her name and the recipient's name written in both English and Chinese characters. Story set in pre-Revolutionary or Kuomintang China. A little girl works to buy an apple, a rich person's fruit, to share with her grandmother on her birthday. The author was born in Guangdong, China, was educated in Hong Kong, and at the time of writing lived with her husband in South Carolina. ISBN 1-56397-206-9.

Seller Inventory # 1385

Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Apple.
• Publisher: Honesdale, Boyds Mill Press, (1994).
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563972069
• ISBN 13: 9781563972065
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Catalogue XIII

About this title

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 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."