Assigned reading for MLIS 7421: Multicultural Youth Literature.

There's not a lot to this book, but that's part of why it works so well; it's just a story of a little boy, the youngest in a family of Vietnamese immigrants, waking up early on a Saturday morning to go fishing for dinner with his father while musing over the idea of his father as a child, fishing on a Saturday morning in a very similar pond, on the other side of the globe. It touches lightly on how difficult it is for their family to make ends meet, and how hard his parents work to keep food on the table for their children.

The author's note at the end of the book was what meant the most to me, as Bao Phi explained that this book is the story of his own childhood, and he even touched on how much the illustrations reminded him of his family home and how important they were to him as a piece of this book.