Dragonfly Eyes illustrated novels because children's writers and illustrators

because children's writers and illustrators are professional hunters of hope… I hope that the imagination can be a place of shelter for children and that The Book of Hopes might be useful in that

and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice

Come on up

When fifth grade arrives

But a moment later she’s transported one minute back in time

Dragonfly Eyes illustrated novels because children's writers and illustratorsWritten by Cao Wenxuan Translated by Helen Wangpaperback A family saga spanning fifty years and three generations, which takes the reader from the France of the Golden Age to poverty stricken post war Shanghai via the re imagined rural China of the Cultural Revolution. Ah Mei and her French grandmother, Nainai, share a rare bond. Maybe because Ah Mei is the only girl grandchild, or maybe because the pair look so alike and because neither look much