This understated tale takes Ruby's predicament seriously while still celebrating her love of learning and her joyful personality. Blackall conveys their special relationship in subtle ways: Grandfather's presence on the balcony, observing Ruby at her studies, a gentle stroke of her head when Ruby is called to Grandfather's office. Years later, at a New Year's Day celebration, he proves that he was listening. One day, her teacher shows Ruby's grandfather a poem she has written in calligraphy: "Alas, bad luck to be born a girl worse luck to be/ born into this house where only boys are cared for." Grandfather questions her about the poem, and she confides her wish to go to university. For instance, she "insist on wearing red everyĭay" opposite, Blackall ( A Giraffe for France) gives a nod to Chinese silkscreening with four poetic images of her, one per season, wearing various red outfits. Shirin’s book, Ruby’s Wish, a story that evolved from spending time with her grandmother on a family trip to Malaysia, is about a young girl in China who strives for more and is rewarded for her hard work and courage. She has lived in many countries around the world. Bridges characterizes the heroine as confident and spunky. Shirin Bridges comes from a family of writers and artists. A tutor teaches any of the 100 assorted grandchildren who wish to learn, but Ruby is the only girl who continues to study while also keeping pace with learning her many household duties. She sets the scene with a description of "a block of houses, five houses wide and seven houses deep, the magnificent home of one family." Ruby lives in this home with her grandfather (who "did what rich men did in old China: he married many wives").
Bridges, in her first book (based on her grandmother's story), handles the conflict between Chinese tradition and young Ruby's longing to attend university with grace and compassion.
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