How my Parents Learned to eat

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Call Number: E FRI
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	E FRI	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Youth level.
An American sailor courts a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.

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I liked it submitted by ejmarcash on August 10, 2012, 10:09pm I wasn't sure whether my children would enjoy this, but my preschool son listened and stayed focused. He liked the story of a couple from two different cultures learning to overcome their embarrassment of how to use a different eating utensil.

Hard to go wrong with Allen Say submitted by LibraryMaven on August 5, 2014, 8:25am I adored this book as a child, when picture books about transnational relationships were less common. They still aren't all that common today, and the perspective of a little girl talking about how her parents from two different countries met and fell in love is quite valuable. Equal weight is given to both cultures, and both parents respect and try to adapt to the culture of the other (via dinner and eating utensils.) In our global world, this is a fun, sweet, and important book.