PublishedPushkin Children's, April 2024 |
ISBN9781782694564 |
FormatHardcover, 48 pages |
Dimensions27.9cm × 21.6cm |
Liddy is so excited about going to the Dim Sum Palace tomorrow with herfamily that she can't sleep. So when a delicious smell wafts into her room, shehops out of bed, opens her door and steps into . . . an actual palace of dimsum! There are dumplings, baos, buns and more delicious treats than one girlcan possibly eat.
Liddy just has to take a bite, but she slips and falls . . . into abowl of dumpling filling. The chefs are so busy rolling, folding and pinchingdough that they don't notice they've prepared a most unusual dumpling for theEmpress - a Liddy dumpling! Worst of all, she looks good enough to eat . . .
This deliciously humorous debut picture book, inspired by X. Fang's memoriesas a child of epic dim sum feasts, is a dreamworld adventure that is at oncea glorious celebration of the sensory world of childhood and a loving helpingof food, family and culture.
