On My Way to Buy Eggs

A little Taiwanese girl, Shau-yu, walks to a traditional provision shop/grocery store to buy eggs for her father. The story is about how this child uses her imagination and humour to discover loveliness along her way to the shop and back.

That was it. That was the whole story. To the shop and back.

Pardon a sprinkle of flashback on my part here: I came upon this book few years ago, when I just started out wanting to write children's literature. Though I liked the sombre colours in contras...