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The Perfect Gift (Dive into Reading)

In this new installment in Yoo’s early reader series focusing on members of a diverse group of friends, Mei’s family is planning a party to celebrate her baby brother Ming’s first one hundred days of life. After helping her grandma dye a couple dozen eggs the lucky color red for their party guests, Mei visits her friends to hand out invitations and ask their advice on a gift for Ming. Her friends have good suggestions—a truck, a drum, something from the toy store—but none of them seem right to Ming. On the morning of the party, Ming still doesn’t have a gift for her brother. “The perfect gift,” her grandma says, “comes from the heart.” Mei decides that rather than buying a gift, she’ll create something by hand for her brother. A short note about the Chinese one hundred days celebration follows this sweet story of a loving older sister and her new brother. ©2019 Cooperative Children’s Book Center

Illustrated by Shirley Ng-Benitez

CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 5-7
Age Range: PreK-Early Elementary (Ages 4-7)
Subjects: Babies Celebrations, Holidays, and Observances Chinese and Chinese Americans Creativity Families
Diversity subjects: Asian Multicultural General

Publisher: Lee & Low
Publish Year: 2018
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9781620145685

CCBC Location: Picture Book, Yoo

The Perfect Gift (Dive into Reading)