Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Yeh-Shen by Ai-Ling Louie, ill. Ed Young

“There are fish literally everywhere in this book!” I meant to do an Ed Young book a little closer to his death last year, but life interfered. As a result I’ve been sitting on this particular copy of Yeh-Shen for a couple months now (sorry, library). Now I hadn’t read this book in probably two decades and I didn’t remember it particularly well, so you can imagine my utter delight as I discovered that, like Lon-Po Po, Ed Young hid one particular animal on these pages. Fish! I have way too much fun finding the fishies in these pages, and Kate dives deep into this particular telling. We misidentify Disney songs, and discuss “tattered creatures”, and kings that neg.

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Show Notes:

It’s a little smudged in this particular version, but this is the reproduced story found in the Hsueh Chin T’ao Yun edition from the Ch’ing dynasty.

Look at all the cool hidden fishies on these pages!

Here’s the very cool photo of a young Matt Tavares sitting alongside Bernard Waber, and showing his signed copy of Ira Sleeps Over.

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