Farmers weed at noon, and their sweat falls onto the field. Have you ever eaten rice? Do you eat it every day? Do you know where it comes from? It comes from a lot of hard work! What we eat are grains of rice, which are called “gu” in China. The husks of the grains are polished off, and the polished grains are called “mi.” Once those grains are cooked, they’re called “fan.” A farmer has to raise all of the rice that we eat. Let’s visit a farm together and learn more about a hardworking rice farmer’s life!
Farmers weed at noon, and their sweat falls onto the field. Have you ever eaten rice? Do you eat it every day? Do you know where it comes from? It comes from a lot of hard work! What we eat are grains of rice, which are called “gu” in China. The husks of the grains are polished off, and the polished grains are called “mi.” Once those grains are cooked, they’re called “fan.” A farmer has to raise all of the rice that we eat. Let’s visit a farm together and learn more about a hardworking rice farmer’s life! Read Less Description
Farmers weed at noon, and their sweat falls onto the field. Have you ever eaten rice? Do you eat it every day? Do you know where it comes from? It comes from a lot of hard work! What we eat are grains of rice, which are called “gu” in China. The husks of the grains are polished off, and the polished grains are called “mi.” Once those grains are cooked, they’re called “fan.” A farmer has to raise all of the rice that we eat. Let’s visit a farm together and learn more about a hardworking rice farmer’s life!
Farmers weed at noon, and their sweat falls onto the field. Have you ever eaten rice? Do you eat it every day? Do you know where it comes from? It comes from a lot of hard work! What we eat are grains of rice, which are called “gu” in China. The husks of the grains are polished off, and the polished grains are called “mi.” Once those grains are cooked, they’re called “fan.” A farmer has to raise all of the rice that we eat. Let’s visit a farm together and learn more about a hardworking rice farmer’s life! Read Less Description
Farmers weed at noon, and their sweat falls onto the field. Have you ever eaten rice? Do you eat it every day? Do you know where it comes from? It comes from a lot of hard work! What we eat are grains of rice, which are called “gu” in China. The husks of the grains are polished off, and the polished grains are called “mi.” Once those grains are cooked, they’re called “fan.” A farmer has to raise all of the rice that we eat. Let’s visit a farm together and learn more about a hardworking rice farmer’s life!
2020 Freeman Book Awards for Children's and Young Adult's Literature on East and Southeast Asia Children's Literature - Honorable Mention
Bank Street College of Education Best Book of 2021
Author & Illustrator
Hongcheng Yu
Hongcheng Yu has had her work chosen for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Her passion is revealing to children the richness and beauty of Chinese traditional culture by illustrating and writing books with authentic content. To create Rice, she lived in the mountains with rice farmers for two years to observe their traditional planting and harvesting cycle.
Yu attentively describes and illustrates traditional rice-growing practices spanning a seed-to-harvest cycle in China’s Yunnan province.
—Publishers Weekly
Farmers weed at noon, and their sweat falls onto the field. Have you ever eaten rice? Do you eat it every day? Do you know where it comes from? It comes from a lot of hard work! What we eat are grains of rice, which are called “gu” in China. The husks of the grains are polished off, and the polished grains are called “mi.” Once those grains are cooked, they’re called “fan.” A farmer has to raise all of the rice that we eat. Let’s visit a farm together and learn more about a hardworking rice farmer’s life!
Farmers weed at noon, and their sweat falls onto the field. Have you ever eaten rice? Do you eat it every day? Do you know where it comes from? It comes from a lot of hard work! What we eat are grains of rice, which are called “gu” in China. The husks of the grains are polished off, and the polished grains are called “mi.” Once those grains are cooked, they’re called “fan.” A farmer has to raise all of the rice that we eat. Let’s visit a farm together and learn more about a hardworking rice farmer’s life! Read Less Description
Details:
SKUWW-NL5585
ISBN9781478869368
Series
Reycraft Books
Lexile level870L
Genre
Realistic Fiction
Language
English
Age9 - 21
Juvenile Nonfiction
Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Historical Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / Asia
Full Description
Farmers weed at noon, and their sweat falls onto the field. Have you ever eaten rice? Do you eat it every day? Do you know where it comes from? It comes from a lot of hard work! What we eat are grains of rice, which are called “gu” in China. The husks of the grains are polished off, and the polished grains are called “mi.” Once those grains are cooked, they’re called “fan.” A farmer has to raise all of the rice that we eat. Let’s visit a farm together and learn more about a hardworking rice farmer’s life!
Author & Illustrator
Hongcheng Yu
Hongcheng Yu has had her work chosen for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Her passion is revealing to children the richness and beauty of Chinese traditional culture by illustrating and writing books with authentic content. To create Rice, she lived in the mountains with rice farmers for two years to observe their traditional planting and harvesting cycle.
Awards
2020 Freeman Book Awards for Children's and Young Adult's Literature on East and Southeast Asia Children's Literature - Honorable Mention
Bank Street College of Education Best Book of 2021
Reviews
Yu attentively describes and illustrates traditional rice-growing practices spanning a seed-to-harvest cycle in China’s Yunnan province.
