| When strange men from the Chinese
government ask Lu Yi's family to sell their property to them so the government can plant
more bamboo there for the pandas, the family says no. Their home is very special to
them. Their ancestors had lived in this house. Then a big panda comes down to
their house from the bamboo forest looking for food. The bamboo in the forest dies
every sixty years and it is dying now. The poor pandas are starving to death. That day Lu Yi goes up into the bamboo forest and spots a mother panda.
As he approaches it he notices it is not moving. It is dead. Lying next to it
is a little cub. Lu Yi takes the cub home only to realize that it will soon get too
big and it will need to go. Lu Yi begins an adventure that may change his future
forever.
I really enjoyed reading this book because it is about pandas.
They are my favorite animal and I learned about them in this easy-to-read book.
Winter 2002 |
