Mounds of rice become snowy mountains, meatballs fall like meteors, and snakes lurk in bowls of vegetable soup in little Aya’s dinnertime world.
Aya does more than make volcanoes out of her mashed potatoes; she dives into dinner with her whole imagination. Fields of salad stretch before her; a car made of corn, snow peas, and tomatoes speeds her across the tablecloth and out of the way of oncoming meatballs; the edge of a carving knife chases her across the chicken.
Sun Chyng-Feng’s story and Chen Chi-Hsien’s wild, windswept illustrations pull the reader into worlds of emotive color, immersing us in this wild imaginative ride through a usually mundane occasion.
