Mauntie and Me

Mauntie and MeBy: Rajani LaRocca Illustrator: Nadia Alam What grows when you share it? A tender story of extended family, jealousy pangs, and above all love, from the Newbery Honorwinning author of Ill Go and Come Back. Every Saturday, when Priyas aunties and uncles and cousins come over, the other kids run off to play together, leaving Priya behind. But she doesnt mind, because she gets to have her favorite aunt, Mauntieshort for My Auntieall to herself. Until,

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代代相傳，你我熟悉的除夕日常　　在大人忙碌準備，孩子熱情參與中　　凝聚一家人溫暖團圓、有情有味的過年　　過新年囉！在年味漸淡的現今，這本《好忙的除夕》，透過三代同堂家庭忙錄準備過年的點滴，帶我們尋回代代相傳、你我熟悉的除夕日常記事。　　以孩子的親身感受，搭配時而押韻的文字，生活化且有情有味的敘述出台灣過年習俗，每一幅準備除夕的畫面，都像是你我家中的過年片段，令人備感親切。　　為了過年，大人每一刻的忙碌，煮年夜飯、拜拜祭祖、除舊佈新、採買年貨……都是為了晚上的重頭戲：與重要的家人團圓圍爐，迎接新的一年平安順遂。而孩子每一刻的忙碌，雖說是熱情幫忙，卻是越幫越忙，但因為參與其中，深深烙印孩子對傳統過年和習俗的感受，是新鮮的、好玩的、特別的，兩者呈現的反差對比，是一個家庭對過年洋溢滿滿的溫暖與幸福感。　　好忙的除夕，忙出每個家庭的過年好風景，也忙出傳統過年習俗，滋養我們對來年的好運祈盼，以及獨特的華人文化風情。隨著農曆新年即將到來，藉由這本《好忙的除夕》，祝福每一個家庭，都能有滋有味、歡喜熱鬧……過個年味十足的新年。

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which she sees as a parent’s act of compassion and love for a child