Ying Chang Compestine, Author . Avery $16.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-58333-127-9
Compestine (Cooking with Green Tea) delivers another health-oriented book specializing in Asian cuisine and culture. Heavily emphasizing the Chinese belief in balance, Compestine applies the concept to food, which she divides into cool (yin) and hot
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Ying Chang Compestine, Author . Holt $16.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8207-4
Picture book and cookbook author Compestine (The Real Story of Stone Soup
) turns to 1972 China as the setting for her first YA novel. Eight-year-old Ling, the spunky daughter of two doctors, lives in Wuhan, China; dreamy and idealistic, she often...
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Ying Chang Compestine, Author Avery Publishing Group $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89529-735-8
To prove that traditional Chinese cuisine does not have to include greasy egg rolls or beef with broccoli in peanut oil, Compestine provides more than 120 recipes using cooking methods (e.g., broiling and steaming rather than frying) and ingredients
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Ying Chang Compestine. Sellers (www.rsvp.com), $18.95 (128p) ISBN 9781416206439
Children's novelist and cookbook author Compestine (The Runaway Rice Cake) offers a slim but palate-expanding collection of flavor-packed meals that come together in a hurry. Some dishes like beef stew or Pan-seared Salmon with Lemon-Dill Yogurt...
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Ying Chang Compestine. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $34.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-118-13075-9
In his new cookbook, Compestine (Revolution is Not a Dinner Party) infuses Eastern philosophy into Western cuisine. The author of 20 books on Chinese culture and cooking creates 125 Asian-infused recipes and presents a contemporary “new cuisine”...
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Ying Chang Compestine, illus. by Sebastià Serra, Dutton, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-42068-2
Inspired by the Danish folktale, The Talking Pot, Compestine's (Boy Dumplings) jaunty story takes place long ago in Beijing, which Serra (A Pirate's Night Before Christmas) portrays as a bustling, cheerful village. On Chinese New Year's Eve, a poor...
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Ying Chang Compestine and Vinson Compestine. Abrams/Amulet, $16.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0540-3
Compestine (Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party) teams up with her son Vinson in this riveting work of supernatural historical fiction set in 1970s Maoist China. As a result of Chairman Mao's attacks on intellectuals, 13-year-old Ming and his professor
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Ying Chang Compestine, Author, James Yamasaki, Illustrator , illus. by James Yamasaki. Holiday House $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1955-5
A macabre blue phantom ends up a comic foil for an animated, rotund Chinese boy in this tongue-in-cheek ghost story. Reminiscent of the clever rodent in Arnold Lobel’s Mouse Soup
, the lively hero (who resembles a young Buddha with hair)...
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Ying Chang Compestine, Author, Tungwai Chau, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-82972-7
Debut children's author Compestine crosses ""The Gingerbread Man"" with the traditional folktale of the bottomless rice jar for this story reinforcing the importance of giving. On the eve of the Chinese New Year, the Chang family prays to the...
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Ying Chang Compestine, Author, YongSheng Xuan, Illustrator Holiday House $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1600-4
Back from The Story of Chopsticks, the Kang brothers are in for another culinary misadventure in The Story of Noodles by Ying Chang Compestine, illus. by YongSheng Xuan. When they fool around instead of following their mother's instructions on ...
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Ying Chang Compestine, Author, YongSheng Xuan, Illustrator Holiday House $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1715-5
Fresh from creating noodles and chopsticks (The Story of Noodles; The Story of Chopsticks), the inventive Kang brothers take to the air in The Story of Kites by Ying Chang Compestine, illus. by YongSheng Xuan. The three boys, weary of chasing birds...
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Ying Chang Compestine, illus. by Yan Nascimbene. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4642-4
Nascimbene’s (First Grade Jitters) delicately drafted ink-and-watercolor artwork distinguishes this child-of-immigrants tale about Ming Da, who scorns his Chinese grandfather until Grandpa’s perfectly timed martial arts kick saves a stranger from...
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Ying Chang Compestine, Author, Coleman Polhemus, Illustrator , illus. by Coleman Polhemus. Holt/Ottaviano $16.99 (180p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8208-1
Compestine (Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
) pens a gruesome but delightful grouping of eight stories about so-called hungry ghosts—“the spirits of people who often died hungry, prematurely, and unjustly”—who return to seek
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Ying Chang Compestine, illus. by Joy Ang. Abrams, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4197-3728-2
Taking a village near China’s Great Wall as this story’s setting, Chang Compestine empowers with a retelling that casts the red-hooded heroine as a kung fu performer. A bespectacled, “gentle” gray wolf opens, offering to tell “the real story.” As...
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Ying Chang Compestine, illus. by David Roberts. Abrams, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4197-2542-5
Compestine (Secrets of the Terra-Cotta Soldier) offers her retelling as a corrective to Hans Christian Andersen’s account. “The truth is that the story took place here in China, and without any tricky tailors,” she writes, promising to reveal the “re
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Ying Chang Compestine, illus. by Paula Pang. Holiday House, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4950-7
On a clear sunny day, the animals of the zodiac prepare for a party in this straightforward, parade-like telling. One page at a time and in the traditional order, the animals travel up a hill with their contributions: among the others, Horse heads...
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Ying Chang Compestine, illus. by Ginnie Hsu. Rocky Pond, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-53401-4
A child attempts to assist with Chinese New Year celebrations in this bustling holiday picture book. As Jia’s family prepares for the new year at their business, Chinatown’s biggest restaurant, Jia offers assistance to each member. But every time—in
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Ying Chang Compestine, illus. by Crystal Kung. Rocky Pond, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5935-3305-5
Affectionately told and vibrantly illustrated, this empowering “Rapunzel” retelling, set in long ago China, features a determined princess in charge of her own fate. Ra Pu Zel, who loves to cook, wears her hair in a braid. Scolded constantly by the...
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Ying Chang Compestine, illus. by Xinmei Liu. Rocky Pond, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5935-3398-7
Compestine’s childhood informs this tense account of 10 years under Mao Zedong’s oppressive rule. Born in Wuhan, China, the book’s narrator is three years old in 1966, when Mao declares a Cultural Revolution to regain power over the government. Her...
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