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Daisy Comes Home By Jan Brett - Book Review
By Richard Jones
Daisy Comes Home By Jan Brett
Summary: The story takes place in rural China where Mei Mei sells eggs in the market. She owns six hens that produce eggs for her every day. Five of the hens are happy, but the sixth hen is smaller and always gets picked on by the other. One night the little hen named Daisy is forced out of the roost and finds a place to sleep along the river. The river washes up and carries her basket away. Daisy is sent on an adventure that will forever change her life. She encounters three different challenges on the journey and learns to believe in herself.
Evaluation: When evaluating the story from a multicultural perspective there was a slight bit of stereotyping, but overall it fits within the guidelines. The story shows what life is like in rural China, the book doesn’t give a broad overview of what the Chinese nation is like. It's comparable to someone coming to the United States and writing a book about one class of people in one small town. It gives the reader some insight on their culture but it lacks a broad overview of what things are like there. There could be some stereotyping taken from the book. When I think about China I think of rural farmland and old style markets. That is what a lot of China is like, but we often forget about the big cities of China and the major manufacturing that occurs there. The language considerations meet the textbooks criteria for a cultural children’s book.
The perspective of the book has dual meanings. You can see the story through Mei Mei’s reactions and actions. However the author was meaning for the reader to see it from the hen’s perspective. The hen was being picked on and had to discover more about herself and how to react to the other hens. The underlying perspective is from Mei Mei. She places a lot of effort into making sure her hens are happy. The hens represent her income stream and her fear of it going away. Many rural farmers in China are poor and struggle to make a living. Mei Mei holds on to what she has very tightly fearing that life might go back to what it was before she had her happy hens.
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Great story Richard,
We all encounter challenges on are journey through life.
The bigest challenge can be how we handle each one and move forward toward our desired goals.
Thank you for sharing.
Have a Healthy, Happy New Year and beyond.
Frederick
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