Ying Chang Compestine is the author of the acclaimed
middle-grade novel Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party as
well as several picture books and a collection of short
stories, A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts. Ying Chang
Compestine lives in California.
Yan Nascimbene, an award-winning illustrator of many books
for children, has illustrated more than three hundred book covers
for publishers all over the world. His editorial illustrations have
appeared in Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New
Yorker, and many other publications. Yan Nascimbene lives
in the south of France and in California.
Poignant but not treacly, CROUCHING TIGER deals with an immigrant
child's conflicting emotions toward a grandparent from the old
country...Nascimbene's delicate ink and watercolor illustrations
are exquisite.
—The New York Times
The beauty Nascimbene discovers in Ming Da's suburban world-the
leaves that fall around Ming Da as he practices, parade-goers
scattered like confetti, the stars that accompany Ming Da and
Grandpa on the way home-echoes the beauty Ming Da eventually finds
in Grandpa's tai chi poses. Readers will warm to the duo's growing
friendship and the gifts that come as Ming Da allows himself to
enter Grandpa's world.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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