This story appears in Tan's adult fiction novel "The Joy Luck Club." Slightly refashioned for the author's first book for young readers, the tale comes to life with brilliant full-page illustrations. ( )

This book has the most beautiful drawings. I actually used to copy images from this book, which was the only time I ever really enjoyed drawing. ( )

On a rainy afternoon, three sisters wish for the rain to stoop, wish they could play in the puddles, wish for something, anything, to do. So Ying-Ying, their grandmother, tells them a tale from long ago. On the night of the Moon Festival, when Ying-ying was a little girl, she encountered the Moon Lady, who grants the secret wishes of those who ask, and learned from her that the best wishes are those you can make come true yourself. This haunting tale, adapted from Amy Tan's best-seller The Joy Luck Club and enhanced by Gretchen Schields's rich, meticulously detailed art, is a book for all to treasure.

I read this to my daughter years ago and didn't pause to spend time with the elaborately realistic and fantastically detailed pictures on each page of the central story of a young girls adventures on the Autumn Moon festival. ( )

On a rainy afternoon, Ying-Ying tells her three young granddaughters the story of a night long ago, when she herself was a girl. On that magical night, the Moon Festival, she hoped to meet the Moon Lady and be granted a secret wish. At the river, she falls off her family's boat, and when she sees the moon lady perform on the shore, she begs to be found.

SOURCE: home bookshelf
AGES: 6-9