Through My Eyes: Shaozhen finding yourself Perfect for every child fascinated

Perfect for every child fascinated by farms

So begins this lyrical and unique non-fiction picture book by award-winning children's author Nicola Davies

then he would be safe

Rory sets off on a crime-fighting detective spree

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Through My Eyes: Shaozhen finding yourself Perfect for every child fascinatedWritten by Wai Chim paperback An evocative and compelling story about one boy living through the 2014 drought in Henan, China. Shaozhen has no intention of staying in his remote Henan village and becoming another poor farmer: he'll finish school, and then, hopefully, work in a factory in one of the major cities, just like his father. But when Shaozhen returns home for the summer holidays, imagining days filled with nothing but playing basketball with