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Food is home

Home in a Lunchbox by Cherry Mo

June 28, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Home in a Lunchbox is one of those picture books that is both sweet, silly, and heartwarming, with a little sadness. Or at least, at first. Cherry Mo’s young narrator  has moved from Hong Kong to America. She only knows a few words of English (hello, thank you, I don’t know, and the important one, toilet), makes mistakes, does not fit in in class and feels hopeless. That is until she opens her lunchbox and familiar sights and smells come out. She will soon learn, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health Tagged With: Cherry Mo, Emigration & Immigration, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:303 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health · Tags: Cherry Mo, Emigration & Immigration, Social Themes ·
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