A review by roseleaf24
Watercress by Andrea Wang

5.0

So deserving of the Caldecott Award and the Newbery Honor. Though this is a story of a second generation immigrant, the experience of being embarrassed by your family is fairly universal. The illustrations do an excellent job of showing both the beauty of the experience of picking the watercress, and the emotion. This book will encourage children to think about the story of any immigrant they may know, but also their own families and how the past had led to the way their family behaves.