Peach Heaven

By Yangsook Choi

Book Overview

"What is the best thing about where you live? Share something unusual about it."
I smiled as I wrote "Peaches."

The peaches grown in Bucheon are the best in all of South Korea, and a rare treat for a young Yangsook. She dreams of a peach orchard where she can play and eat as much of the delicious fruit as she wishes. Then one day, after hours of a sudden heavy downpour, the sky begins to rain peaches. Yangsook finds herself in peach heaven--until she remembers the farmers who have lost their harvest and decides she must help them.

Fully revised and re-illustrated, Peach Heaven is a timeless ode to human kindness and childhood wonder based on the author's early life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374391300
• ISBN13: 9780374391300
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.9" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

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Peach Heaven is a beautiful book based on the rainstorm of Puchon, Korea. This was the day it rained peaches! A powerful monsoon picked the peaches from mountain orchards and quite virtually deposited the fruit in Yangsook's lap. The Yangsook's recollective voice lends a very tender quality to the story. In the author's note we find that peaches are regarded as a very special fruit. The sense of community in the end when everyone helps the farmers with the harvest is a very touching and cherished moment.