As an introduction to Dim Sum for a very young child, Dim Sum For Everyone would likely work quite well, but indeed, older children would more than likely require more detail and a considerably stronger, more informative textual offering from Grace Lin.īut sadly, and really totally frigging horribly, Dim Sum for Everyone has actually now (in 20022) been banned in Duval County, Florida (along with 176 other books, sigh). And as someone who used to go out for Dim Sum quite regularly (during my university years), what I actually appreciate most are the two back pages of Dim Sum for Everyone which list twenty-two Dim Sum dishes (along with both the English and Chinese names of said dishes), and the two front pages, which detail some of the ingredients and utensils used to prepare and eat Dim Sum. Granted, the storyline of Dim Sum for Everyone of a Chinese American family going out for a traditional Dim Sum is to a point captivating and delightful, but there just is not all that much to it (not all that much detail, not all that much that can be described as more than a rather obvious scratching the proverbial surface of rudimentary description and depiction of the joys and ways and means of Dim Sum). Also, and for me probably even more importantly, and as some of my GR friends have already pointed out in their own excellent reviews of Dim Sum For Everyone, the text itself (Grace Lin's printed words), they are rather, no actually, they are very much lacking in any kind of substance.
However, and on a purely personal level, I really cannot say that I like the accompanying illustrations all that much, as they are simply much too cartoon-like for my aesthetic tastes (working well enough in conjunction with the narrative, but not in any way magical or spectacular, just simply and basically adequate). Grace Lin's Dim Sum For Everyone is for all intents and purposes sweet and enlightening (and perhaps even quite engaging for the very young).
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