Beth Lo (illustrator)
Mahjong All Day Long
Walker, 2005
With retro, Chinese-primer style illustrations and vernacular Chinese phrases, Mahjong All Day Long immediately transported me back in time to happy weekends when my parents and grandparents played round after round of májiàng 麻將. Ginnie Lo captures the memories of smells (tea and dumplings), tastes and textures (cracking roasted watermelon seeds), and sounds (slightly out-of-tune singing to the karaoke machine, thunderous shuffling of mahjong tiles, and exclamations of pòng! or húle!). At the book's end, there is a list of instructional books for those who would like to learn to play.
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