They all worked long, hard hours, and Jingwen’s parents wanted a better life for their two boys. Jingwen’s father worked in the family bakery with his parents and Jingwen’s mom.
This story comes out slowly over the course of the book. Jingwen is also suffering from terrible guilt about the death of his father. Some illustrations feature Jingwen and his brothers on the bus they take to school with all the other riders looking like aliens and speaking a language that consists of shapes and squiggles, not letters. They reflect what is going on in the story and the emotions of the characters, and at times, they actually move the story forward. The illustrations serve several purposes in the story. While their mama speaks English fairly well, and the younger brother picks it up quickly, Jingwen, the main character, explains to the reader in first person narrative that he feels like he’s on Mars. In this story, two brothers and their mother move to Australia after their father dies. “Pie in the Sky” by Remy Lai is a beautifully crafted middle grade story about some very real issues, loss and feeling alone, that almost everyone, at every spectrum of socio-economic status, experiences.
0 kommentar(er)
