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Title: How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman ISBN: 0-395-44235-4 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 27 April, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book for multicultural classrooms
Comment: "How My Parents Learned To Eat" presents Japanese and American cultures in a story. The readers read about the cultural values through a little girl's first person narrative. From her telling, the readers will understand Japanese customs in its cultural context, such as bowing for greeting and drinking soup from the bowl. These concepts may be foreign or even funny to Americans who are unfamiliar Japanese culture. The author, however, successfully weave elements from both Ameriacn and Japanese cultures into the story. The respect for both Japanese and American cultures is also evident in the book. Not only did the mother (Japanese) want to learn the Western way of eating, but the father (American) is also willingly to learn the Japanese way of eating. So, in the end of the story, the little girl says again, "That's why at our house some days we eat with chopsticks and some days we eat with knives and forks" (p. 32).
Rating: 5
Summary: Wise and muted, simple and understanding
Comment: The author of this Reading Rainbow Selection is wise; she knows how eating styles and habits can separate people and be inhibiting. The narrator recalls how her parents met: a white American sailor and a Japanese woman from the port city of Yokohama. The girl tells the reader that some days, in her house, they eat with chopsticks, and on some days with knives and forks. In the clear, muted watercolors, the reader finds her eating with chopsticks with a rice cooker on the first page, and eating with a knife and fork with a toaster on the last. Somewhat like O. Henry's story, The gift of the Magi, the sailor is too embarrassed to eat with Aiko, since he cant use chopsticks. And Aiko is frightened to eat with John, for she has never used a fork. But the port call is ending in a few weeks, so both rush to learn the other's ways, and an eating date is finally arranged. Love conquers all.
Rating: 5
Summary: THE TABLE OF BROTHERHOOD OR THE FAMILY TABLE
Comment: This story is narrated by a bright little girl who describes how her parents met and adapted to one another's cultures. A bright, beautiful child, the girl is blond like her American father and has beautiful Asian features she inherited from her Japanese mother. She tells the story of how they came to sit at the family table.
An American sailor meets a woman in Japan and is instantly smitten. Their attraction is mutual; however each worries about being able to adapt to the other's culture. The sailor learns to eat with chopsticks and the woman in turn learns to eat with a knife, fork and spoon. She approaches her grandfather, a kind, scholarly man who teaches her the British way of handling western utensils. Still she worries because her finace is American.
They meet again; their transcultural love shows they really have more common grounds than differences. Each is moved by the other's willingness to learn the other's culture and the results are heartwarming indeed.
Their daughter joins them and all readers at the Table of Brotherhood which once again proves that people really have more in common than they do differences.
This is such a wonderful book. I love it! I think it belongs in all homes and classrooms because it is an excellent example of cultural harmony and pride.
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Title: The Boy of the Three-Year Nap by Dianne Snyder, Allen Say ISBN: 039566957X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Colors of Japan (Colors of the World) by Holly Littlefield, Helen Byers ISBN: 1575052156 Publisher: Carolrhoda Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: I Live in Tokyo: A Japanese Calendar by Mari Takabayashi ISBN: 0618077022 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 24 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Count Your Way Through Japan by Jim Haskins, Martin Skoro ISBN: 0876144857 Publisher: Carolrhoda Books Pub. Date: June, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Way We Do It in Japan by Geneva Cobb Iijima, Paige Billin-Frye ISBN: 0807578223 Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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