Cloud Tea Monkeys

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Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet and his wife, Elspeth Graham, team up for a captivating, lushly illustrated tale evoking a Chinese legend. A Junior Library Guild Selection Tashi lives in a tiny village at the foot of the mountains, below the tea plantations where her mother works. When her mother falls ill, Tashi goes alone to the plantation, hoping to earn money for the doctor. But she is far too small to harvest the tender shoots, and her clumsy efforts anger the cruel Overseer. She is desolate, until chackchackchack! something extraordinary happens. Inspired by a centuriesold legend of teapicking monkeys, here is a richly told tale full of vivid characters the heartless Overseer, the enigmatic Royal Tea Taster, and far away an empress with a penchant for tea.

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