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The legend of Auntie Po / Shing Yin Khor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Khor, Shing Yin, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinese Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- Chinese Americans--Folklore--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Chinese Americans--Folklore--Juvenile fiction.
- Lumber camps--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Lumber camps.
- Lumber camps--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Juvenile fiction.
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.).
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Juvenile fiction.
- United States--Race relations--History--19th century--Comic books, strips, etc.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations--History--19th century--Juvenile fiction.
- Chinese Americans--Fiction.
- Chinese Americans--Folklore--Fiction.
- Lumber camps--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Fiction.
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Fiction.
- Folklore.
- Race relations.
- United States--Sierra Nevada.
- Asian American queer people.
- Queer children.
- Queer characters.
- Genre:
- LGBTQ+ graphic novels.
- Graphic novels.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Fiction.
- Historical comics.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kokila, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch"-- Provided by publisher
- Publisher Annotation: Part historical fiction, part magical realism, and 100 percent adventure. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a Chinese heroine while she works in a Sierra Nevada logging camp in 1885.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 287).
- Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens, 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780525554882
- 0525554882
- 9780525554899
- 0525554890
- OCLC:
- 1255609018
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