Picking Tea with Baba

Xu Bin; Illustrated by Yu Yin; Translated by Shan Chen
(Charlesbridge)
  • Fiction
  • Set in China

Key words: Food, family, farming, countryside

A young boy and his brother travel with their parents up the mountainside to their tea garden for a day of work. They delight in the animals they see, compete to see who can pick the most tea leaves, take a lunch break, and weather an unexpected rainstorm. At the end of the day, they trek back down the mountain to sell the leaves before going home.