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17 kwi 2023 · A girl raised in the US relocates with her parents to Japan, where she struggles to find her way as the product of two cultures. Mr. Paul reads aloud "Tea with Milk" by Allen Say.
7 wrz 2020 · It is Read a Book Day today and continuing with the Allen Say collection, I read Tea with Milk. I love Grandfather's Journey and to me Tea with Milk is like the sequel in a way. I...
Allen Say brings tenderness and humor to his mother’s unforgettable story in this beautiful tribute to his parents. But at her friends’ houses near San Francisco, May speaks English and enjoys pancakes and tea with milk and sugar.
1 kwi 1999 · TEA WITH MILK. In describing how his parents met, Say continues to explore the ways that differing cultures can harmonize; raised near San Francisco and known as May everywhere except at home, where she is Masako, the child who will grow up to be Say’s mother becomes a misfit when her family moves back to Japan.
At home in San Francisco, May speaks Japanese and the family eats rice and miso soup and drinks green tea. When she visits her friends’ homes, she eats fried chicken and spaghetti. May plans someday to go to college and live in an apartment of her own.
1 mar 1999 · Allen Say explores this question in this nonfiction story of his own mother finding herself in the middle of a new world, adjusting to Japanese culture while still keeping remnants of her former life in California. May will grow and adjust and adapt, but she will always take her tea with milk.
4 maj 2009 · Tea with Milk vividly portrays the graceful formality of Japan and captures the struggle between two cultures as May strives to live out her own life. Alongside his Caldecott Medal-winning Grandfather’s Journey, in Tea with Milk, master storyteller Allen Say continues to chronicle his family’s history between Japan and California.
