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I Can Eat with Chopsticks: The Tale of the Chopstick Brothers and How They Became a Pair - A Story in English and Chinese
This beautifully illustrated bilingual Chinese and English storybook welcomes you to enjoy a light-hearted story of how chopsticks became the main eating utensil of the Chinese People.
When Little Mo picks up a small bamboo stick from the bamboo forest, she has no idea that it will eventually lead to one of China's most significant inventions. In this Children's story the stick comes to life to help in the kitchen. The little bamboo stick helps Mom pick out vegetables from a bowl of hot soup, helps Little Mo to eat the remaining rice in her bowl, and helps Dad to stir eggs. The stick soon learns it has limitations, unable to easily pick up noodles from a bowl.
Little Mo quickly solves this problem by finding another bamboo stick to join the team. As a duo, the stocks can cut buns in half and pick up pork dumplings without any difficulty. Her dad then gives them the name "chopsticks" and improves upon their design. First used in China over 3,000 years ago, their use spread to other Asian countries and all over the world!
When Little Mo picks up a small bamboo stick from the bamboo forest, she has no idea that it will eventually lead to one of China's most significant inventions. In this Children's story the stick comes to life to help in the kitchen. The little bamboo stick helps Mom pick out vegetables from a bowl of hot soup, helps Little Mo to eat the remaining rice in her bowl, and helps Dad to stir eggs. The stick soon learns it has limitations, unable to easily pick up noodles from a bowl.
Little Mo quickly solves this problem by finding another bamboo stick to join the team. As a duo, the stocks can cut buns in half and pick up pork dumplings without any difficulty. Her dad then gives them the name "chopsticks" and improves upon their design. First used in China over 3,000 years ago, their use spread to other Asian countries and all over the world!
- GenresPicture Books
42 pages, Hardcover
Published April 17, 2018
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August 3, 2023
A story for children to understand chopsticks!
The story is told in English and Chinese (my students love bilingual books) and begins with a young child picking up a small piece of bamboo. When help is needed to finish the rice in a bowl, the stick helps the child. When noodles are more complex to eat, the child finds another small stick. That works! Unfortunately when they are set down, they roll off the dinner table. The child's father fixes that problem by making one end of the chopsticks square to stop the rolling. After the story there is an explanation of the cultural use of chopsticks as well as a description of how to use them.
I now have the perfect book to use when we talk about our multicultural family night at my school!
The story is told in English and Chinese (my students love bilingual books) and begins with a young child picking up a small piece of bamboo. When help is needed to finish the rice in a bowl, the stick helps the child. When noodles are more complex to eat, the child finds another small stick. That works! Unfortunately when they are set down, they roll off the dinner table. The child's father fixes that problem by making one end of the chopsticks square to stop the rolling. After the story there is an explanation of the cultural use of chopsticks as well as a description of how to use them.
I now have the perfect book to use when we talk about our multicultural family night at my school!
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