Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (2009)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a 2009 massachusetts book award winner book written by Grace Lin and Janet Song.
In a poor village at the foot of Fruitless Mountain, a girl named Minli spends the family's few coins on a goldfish and then sets out to change her family's fortune. Guided by a folktale her father tells at night, she goes to find the Old Man of the Moon and ask him one question. Along the way she frees a dragon who cannot fly, and meets a talking fish, a greedy magistrate, and a pair of kind orphans. Grace Lin braids classic Chinese folktales into her own, illustrating the 2009 Newbery Honor book with full-color plates. Warm, brisk, and quietly wise.
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What is Where the Mountain Meets the Moon about?
In a poor village at the foot of Fruitless Mountain, a girl named Minli spends the family's few coins on a goldfish and then sets out to change her family's fortune. Guided by a folktale her father tells at night, she goes to find the Old Man of the Moon and ask him one question. Along the way she frees a dragon who cannot fly, and meets a talking fish, a greedy magistrate, and a pair of kind orphans. Grace Lin braids classic Chinese folktales into her own, illustrating the 2009 Newbery Honor book with full-color plates. Warm, brisk, and quietly wise.
When was Where the Mountain Meets the Moon published?
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon was published in 2009.
Who made Where the Mountain Meets the Moon?
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon was written by Grace Lin and Janet Song.
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http://www.gracelin.com/content.php?page=wherethemountainmeetsthemoon
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Minli's folklore quest shares its spirit with Spirited Away, where another child crosses into a world of spirits and old bargains. Kubo and the Two Strings tells a similar Asian-inspired story of journey and tales within tales. Both films carry the wonder young readers find in Grace Lin's mountain and moon.
Gentle folktale-inspired quests across a magical world
Minli's search for the Old Man of the Moon is really a string of small kindnesses: freeing a flightless dragon, listening to an old man's folktale, trusting a stranger on the road. These animated films, a show, and a sprawling comic build their own quests the same way, threading real wonder and warmth through a very long journey.
Young heroes whose small quest saves the people they love
Minli sets out with nothing but a handful of coins to change her family's fortune, and Grace Lin never lets the stakes get bigger than one household's happiness. These stories keep that same scale: a young or small-statured hero whose entire quest is really just about saving the people closest to them.