Picking Tea with Baba memoir/biography but not necessarily for Isabella

but not necessarily for Isabella

with playful text that asks young readers questions and includes sidebars that provide additional facts

chewing on a shoe

The text is composed of playful rhyming couplets

the narrative sparkles with details that match its subject’s energy and verve

Picking Tea with Baba memoir/biography but not necessarily for IsabellaBy: Xu Bin Illustrated by: Yu Yin Translated by: Shan Chen Usually Baba goes to the tea garden by himself. It's a special treat to join him. A young boy and his brother travel with their parents up the mountainside to their tea garden for a day of work. They delight in the animals they see, compete to see who can pick the most tea leaves, take a lunch break, and weather an unexpected rainstorm. At the end of the day, they trek back down the mountain