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Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding

Illustrated by Yumi Heo
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About The Book

Jenny's favorite uncle, Peter, is getting married, and everyone is happy happy -- everyone, that is, except Jenny. While her family runs about getting ready for the traditional Chinese wedding -- preparing for the tea ceremony, exchanging good-luck money called hungbau, helping the bride with her many dresses -- Jenny is crying on the inside. How is she supposed to still be Uncle Peter's number-one girl, with her new aunt Stella around? Maybe if she can stop the day's events from happening, he won't get married at all...
Mischievous kids will love following Lenore Look and Yumi Heo's feisty heroine from Henry's First-Moon Birthday in this charming story that also illuminates the many traditions of the Chinese wedding.

About The Author

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Lenore Look

Lenore Look is the author of Ruby Lu, Brave and True, an ALA Notable Book, as well as its sequels, Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything and Ruby Lu, Star of the Show. Her picture books include Love as Strong as Ginger, illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Stephen T. Johnson; Henry’s First-Moon Birthday; and Uncle Peter’s Amazing Chinese Wedding, both illustrated by Yumi Heo. She lives in Hong Kong.

About The Illustrator

Yumi Heo

Product Details

  • Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (January 1, 2006)
  • Length: 40 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780689844584
  • Ages: 4 - 8

Awards and Honors

  • ALA Notable Children's Books
  • California Young Reader Medal Nominee
  • CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
  • CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book
  • Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best
  • Blue Hen Book Award Nominee (DE)
  • Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book

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