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Books : History : General-youth
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Adeline Yen Mah first told her story in the emotive, bestselling Falling Leaves, an adult autobiography which charted her passage from childhood through to womanhood. Here in Chinese Cinderella she relates her tale for younger readers, detailing her difficult life as an unwanted and deeply misunderstood child.Christened with the Chinese name Jun-ling, her mother died just a few days after her birth, and from that moment her fate within her family was sealed. As one of seven siblings, including two children from her father's second marriage, Jun-ling struggled to maintain her dignity from a young age, treated as she was with a vicious contempt by all around her at home, apart from her beloved Aunt Baba and her elderly grandfather.
Growing up as she did in a relatively wealthy Chinese family in the 40s and 50s, the privileges that money would normally give such a child passed her by, and even her intelligence which shone through as early as kindergarten could not save her from the emotional brutality of a family who simply did not love her.
Jun-ling¹s story, written from the very heart of the successful adult she has become, is a stinging and hostile tale of a child whose young life was blighted by lack of care and affection and is an emotional roller coaster journey which, without actually falling into the trap of melodrama, will wring tears of rage, sadness and deep, deep frustration from any reader. (Age 10 and over) --Susan Harrison
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If you've ever wondered what your street was like years ago, then this is the book for you. This large format and detailed book takes you through the life of one street and shows how it changes, over thousands of years from a small Stone Age camp into a bustling riverside thoroughfare in the heart of a metropolis.Beautifully illustrated, this book brings 14 key periods of history to life. Magnificent buildings go up, and come down again, new churches are built on the site of ancient temples, wooden bridges are destroyed and then rebuilt in stone, statues are demolished and then unearthed many years later. There are also some buildings which remain throughout. As well as the buildings changing, the people who inhabit the street also change--what they do, what they wear, what they eat. As well as incredibly detailed illustrations there is also lively text which provides a fascinating and factual insight into the life going on on the pages and suggests particular features to look out for in the pictures.
This is one of those books that the more you look at the pages the more you see in them. It is also a very useful and informative book which will be useful for both home and school study. (Ages 9 to 12)
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