Explore Culture and Cultivate Friendship with Poetry - 小游子 诗友情

What happens when a seven-year-old is introduced to rhymes, then meets a seventy-year-old with a shared interest in poetry?

Explore Culture and Cultivate Friendship with Poetry is a collection of poems in Chinese and English written by Kaihua Skyler Chong. The book shares Skyler's compositions and dialogs with the much older "pen-pal" across time zones and continents.

One English poem is written as a Shakespearean Sonnet while drawing inspiration from the setting of an ancient Chinese poem. Another Chinese verse refers to the idea of bridging historical and modern times.

These pieces demonstrate that different cultures and languages can influence and bolster one another. Children growing up in multilingual families have unique opportunities to connect their thoughts, actions, habits, and characters through different languages. As language is the essence of culture, they can feel proud to learn and share their languages, and shape their cultures.







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"A lovely, heartwarming collection of poems, sure to surprise and delight. Perfect for readers of all ages!"
-- Grace D. Li, New York Times bestselling author of Portrait of a Thief