Dim Sum Palace
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
An American Library Association Notable Children's Book
A little girl's love of dim sum spills over into her dreams, taking her on a fantastical food-filled adventure, in this picture book love letter to Maurice Sendak's In the Night Kitchen. Beautifully illustrated with a gold foil cover, this is the perfect gift for foodies of all ages.
Liddy is so excited about going to the Dim Sum Palace tomorrow with her family that she can't sleep. So when a delicious smell wafts into her room, she hops out of bed, opens her door and steps into . . . an actual palace of dim sum! There are dumplings, baos, buns and more delicious treats than one girl can possibly eat. Liddy just has to take a bite, but she slips and falls . . . into a bowl of dumpling filling. The chefs are so busy rolling, folding and pinching dough that they don't notice they've prepared a most unusual dumpling for the Empress — a Liddy dumpling! Worst of all, she looks good enough to eat . . .
This deliciously humorous debut picture book, inspired by X. Fang's memories as a child of epic dim sum feasts, is a dreamworld adventure that is at once a glorious celebration of the sensory world of childhood and a loving helping of food, family and culture.
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A child eager for dim sum takes a surreal nighttime journey in Fang's solo debut, reminiscent of Maurice Sendak's In the Night Kitchen. Liddy is so excited to visit the Dim Sum Palace that she finds it hard to fall asleep. After her mother wishes "Good night, my little dumpling," clouds bearing "a delicious smell" beckon, and Liddy walks through a palace's garden and down a hall, where two giant-size chefs prepare a meal: "There were baos, buns and bowls of congee!" When diminutive Liddy climbs bamboo steamers for a taste and falls into a bowl, she's made into a dumpling that "looked good enough to eat!" Saving herself from becoming the palace Empress's first bite, Liddy joins the feast before falling asleep on a warm bun—and waking ready to experience Dim Sum Palace. Retaining hand-worked textures, digitally colored graphite illustrations combine an expressive heroine with a mildly menacing scenario to winningly whimsical effect. Protagonists cue as East Asian. Ages 3–7.
