Bronze and Sunflower
School year: Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8
No. of pages 400
Published: 2019
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"Bronze and Sunflower" by Cao Wenxuan tells the poignant story of two children growing up in rural China during the Cultural Revolution. Bronze, a boy from a poor farming family, finds companionship with Sunflower, a girl from a privileged background who is sent to live with her relatives in the countryside. Their friendship blossoms amid the challenges of the harsh environment, family dynamics, and societal change. The novel explores themes of love, loyalty, and resilience, as the children navigate their contrasting worlds, ultimately discovering the profound connections that unite them despite their differences. [Generated by language model - please report any problems].
This book is aimed at children at US 4th grade-7th grade.
This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.
There are 400 pages in this book. This book was published in 2019 by Candlewick Press, U. S. .
MARY JOSLIN is the author of a number of storybooks for children. Some of her titles are: The Goodbye Boat, The Minstrel's Tale and The Heaven Tree. Cao Wenxuan is one of China's most important children's writers and is widely considered the country's most subtle and philosophical, often referred to as China's very own Hans Christian Andersen. He is a professor of Chinese literature at Peking University, and has in turn taught some of China's best young writers. Many of his books have been bestsellers, including Thatched Cottage and Red Gourd, and his work has been translated into French, Russian, Japanese, Korean and English. Cao has won several of China's most prestigious awards for children's literature, including the Song Qingling and Bing Xin prizes, and is current winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Helen Wang has a BA Hons in Chinese from SOAS and is currently a Curator of East Asian Money at the British Museum. She has written and edited numerous books and articles and has been translating from Chinese to English for nearly 25 years, including, for children, Jackal and Wolf by SHEN Shixi and Pai Hua Zi and the Clever Girl by Zhang Xinxin. She lives with her family in north London.