Grandpa takes Ash in to the tea plantation and shows her how to pick the best leaves. They put the leaves in the shade to soften and then they dry them with hot air. Finally hot water is added and we have a drink called tea. The cheeky monkey, the panda, the wild boar and finally a dragon arrive to try this magical drink. We watch the calming effects as storm abates, the friends fall asleep and the dragon flies away.
This is a quirky little story about how tea is made. My friend from Kinderbookswitheverything talked about International Tea Day back in 2022 and I remembered seeing the cover of this book. Now she has added it to her school library collection. Here is a 2018 interview with Fu Wenzheng.
AFTER you read Ash invites her friends to tea you can see the pages on Storybox Library and listen to the reading by Gabrielle Wang. But please read and explore the print book first. Oh and after you read this book your young reading companion could watch you prepare a cup of tea with tea leaves perhaps not a tea bag in a lovely old family tea pot!
About the author/illustrator: Fu Wenzheng grew up in a temple in China where her grandfather was a monk. The experiences she had as a child have greatly influenced her writing and style of illustration. Traditional Chinese culture and philosophy are at the focal point of all her work. Fu Wenzheng did her undergraduate studies at Fujian University’s College of Fine Art and then went on to study Illustration at Zhejiang Science and Engineering University’s School of Art and Design.
I have talked here about a few books that feature tea drinking or tea time or tea making or even teapots.
Here is the first book about Ash:
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