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Best Chinese Children's Picture Book Award
A New Year's Reunion
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Best Chinese Children's Picture Book Award

Synopsis

Chinese New Year is here, and father is coming home after working out of town for a family reunion. But when the story’s little girl Maomao sees her father, she feels like they’re strangers. However, after wearing the jacket her father bought her, watching him fix the house and riding on his shoulders…she slowly builds up her and learns the love and trust she has for her father. The most important part of the story is hidden within the rice ball’s coin: the father puts a lucky coin in a sticky rice ball, Maomao eats the rice ball and offers the coin to her father, which brings hope for a good new year. Through a coin, the author expresses the care, appreciation, and affection a child holds deep in their heart.

Book Details

  • Author : Yu Liqiong
  • Illustrator : Zhu Chengliang
  • Publisher : Hsin Yi Publications
  • ISBN : 978-986-161-247-8
  • Age Range : 3-8
  • Publication Date : 01 – 2008

Judge's comment

A New Year's Reunion blends traditional Chinese culture, essence of modern life, and a child's inner feelings, and becomes a moving work with humanity, historical sensibility, and aesthetic beauty. The story has a natural narrative instead of exaggerated rhetoric and exploited emotion. Its theme implicit, emotional expression mild, and structure well-trimmed. The text offers a solid foundation for the pictures, and leaves the illustrator vast space for creativity. The illustrator understands the artistic law that images in picture books are design art. The elements of New Year paintings initiate a series of imaginative and creative designs that stick to the essence of the story, such as the use of menjian (New Year door decorations), the style of endpapers, comic-style panels, pictures on double-page spreads, the interlacing of pictures big and small, the echo of front and back cover pictures, etc. (In the Xinyi edition, the layout of the opening pages is more coherent and complete.) These artistic designs strengthen the expression of the visual narratives. The text and picture thus complement each other and the artistic effect is enhanced. The simple painting style gives forth Chinese aesthetic taste, and subtly reveals the inner feelings of the characters in their gestures that demonstrate the illustrator's proficiency in characterization.

Zhu Ziqiang (Director, Children's Literature Institute, Ocean University of China)

Winners

Yu Liqiong

Author of A New Year's Reunion
Best Chinese Children's Picture Book Award

Yu Liqiong was born in Anqing, Anhui in 1980. She has a Bachelor Degree in Literature from Nanjing University; and was a candidate for a Master's Degree in Arts and Drama. She is now working as an editor of the magazine Oriental Baby 《東方娃娃》. She has been publishing essays, poems and fiction since 1996.

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Zhu Chengliang  

Illustrator of Granny Couldn't Fall Asleep,
Outstanding Chinese Children's Picture Book Award

Illustrator of A New Year's Reunion,
Best Chinese Children's Picture Book Award

Born in Shanghai in 1948, he was brought up in Suzhou and graduated from the College of Fine Arts at the Nanjing Arts Institute. He was the Associate Chief Editor of Jiangsu Arts Publishing House before his retirement. He loves and enjoys creating picture books. Some of his illustrated works include: Flashing Rabbit Lantern, which was awarded the “Noma” Honorable Mention by the United Nations Asian Cultural Centre in 1984, A Day in the World, Fighting for Deer, Flame, and more.

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