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| Mei Ling's Hiccups |
by David Mills
illustrated by Derek Brazell |
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The class party is just finishing when HIC! Mei Ling gets hiccups and they will not go away. The children in her class try to help her with different suggestions learned from home. But Mei Ling's hiccups just keep coming back... What can Mei Ling do? A book that suggests how different communities have different solutions to this common problem. "This popular story is one of the most asked for books in my class." Nursery teacher, Westminster
Book Review:
I had to review this book because my youngest son has been walking around the house saying “pop, pop, pop” for the last few weeks (imitating the balloons in this story). I also love the way this book teaches kids about how different cultures try to resolve a common problem.
In this story, our adorable heroine suffers from hiccups at the class party. Her classmates (representing diverse ethnicities, of course) propose wonderful multicultural solutions to this universal problem. Unfortunately, her hiccups keep coming back! What can Mei Ling do? Hint: Think of the “pop, pop, pop” I mentioned in the introductory sentence of this review!!
Books for Keeps, the largest independent monthly review magazine for children's books in the UK, calls this is “a wonderful, engaging story with superb illustrations.” We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
Review written by Anneke Forzani
From April 2006 issue of Culture Connection Newsletter
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Available in English with:
Albanian, Chinese-Simplified+Pinyin, Czech, Farsi, Gujarati, Japanese, Panjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Turkish |
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Ages: 3-7 Paperback
Dimensions: 11.7w x 9.8h inches |
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