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Title: Beautiful story, questionable illustrations
Review: This is a very nice story, summarized in Booklist Review, that my 4- and 6-year old children love. They always ask for it around the time of the Lantern Festival (the official end of Spring Festival/New Years) as the illustrations of the lanterns are lovely. My girls always spend some time choosing the lanterns they love best. But I do agree that the illustrations of the people give me serious pause -- round faces, whisps of hair, buck teeth. (We bought the book from a catalog so I didn't see the illustrations.) Although we've purchased a number of Chinese-themed books for our children's schools, we wouldn't purchase this one. I would love to see the author republish it with different illustrations.
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