Sam and the Lucky Money [Chinese version] by Karen Chinn, illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu [in AsianWeek]
20 Dec, by in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost
Chinese translation of an award-winning, heart-warming story originally published in 1995 about how young Sam decides to spend the “lucky money” he receives on New Year’s...
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