Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic

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Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	J Fiction / Lo, Ginnie	4-week checkout	Due 05-01-2024

"A Chinese American girl's Auntie Yang discovers soybeans--a favorite Chinese food--growing in Illinois, leading her family to a soybean picnic tradition that grows into an annual community event. Includes author's note and glossary"--Provided by publisher.

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Uh... submitted by maywang on June 18, 2020, 11:44am Nice

soybeans submitted by justurlocalspirit on July 26, 2020, 3:09pm i'm sorry, but soybeans RUINED PEANUT BUTTER FOR ME WITH WOW BUTTER.

Such a lovely story submitted by redwood on August 1, 2023, 12:58pm Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic seemed almost made for me in its Midwesternness. I come from the land of corn and soybeans; in Indiana, Illinois, and other Midwestern states, these crops are grown, as Lo notes, almost exclusively to feed livestock, not people. With retro-looking illustrations by Beth Lo, the story of one large Chinese American family’s Midwestern relationship to soybeans unfolds. The narrator’s family frequently drives from Indiana to Illinois to visit Auntie Yang and her family—relatively isolated as earlier-wave immigrants, family and cultural togetherness are important. When Auntie Yang spots soybeans growing by the side of the road, she starts picking them and making feasts of soybeans that come to draw more than two hundred Chinese Americans for an annual picnic. I have so much love for this story about the Asian American rural Midwest!