The lotus seed By Garland, Sherry

Title: The lotus seed
Author: Garland, Sherry
Illustration:Tatsuro Kiuchi
Publisher:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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CIP Info A young Vietnamese girl saves a lotus seed and carries it with her everywhere to remember a brave emperor and the homeland that she has to flee. This is one of my favorite books. A woman sees the Emperor cry. Then she went down to the royal gardens and took seeds from the lotus flower. The next day the Emperor was over thrown. Soon her country was at war. Through wars and a trip across the ocean she never lost that seed. One day her grandson, who had never seen a lotus, he plants it. The Grandmother is so distraught she can’t eat or sleep. But finally, after all of those years, the flower bloomed. After the petals fell away, the grandmother gave each child a seed, and kept a seed for herself. I love the story of tradition being passed from generation to generation.