A Taste of Home, Richard Ho
A Taste of Home, Richard Ho
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A Taste of Home

Author: Richard Ho

Narrator: Fred Berman

Unabridged: 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/20/2024

Synopsis

A Taste of Home features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun!

In this colorful celebration of culture, community, and the food that binds us all together, follow a young boy on a culinary tour of New York City, perfect for fans of All Are Welcome and Where Are You From?

What is home?

To one child, home is this street he knows better than any other. Where his family has lived for as long as he can remember.

But to another…home is also another place. Where she lived when she was a child. Far away, yet close enough in memory.

Or maybe home is a place they never saw themselves. That only grandparents or great-grandparents knew.

And maybe, home is not a place at all. Maybe home is people, who gather to share, and celebrate.

Follow a group of children as they walk through urban streets and meet friends with immigrant parents and grandparents. Together, by picking up ingredients from all around the world, they begin to prepare a shared meal that celebrates the diversity of their city.

A Macmillan Audio production from Roaring Brook Press.

About Richard Ho

Richard Ho is a children’s book author who was once, himself, a child. He is a former journalist and educational scriptwriter who enjoys writing stories about science, culture, and the magic of everyday life. Red Rover is his first book for young readers.

About Sibu T. P.

Born and raised in New York, Sibu T.P. is a first-generation child of immigrants. He spent a great deal of his childhood years scribbling and sketching, dreaming and imagining. Today, he tells stories through picture books. Sibu studied English Lit at SUNY Stony Brook, and illustration at the Hartford Art School. When he's not in front of his drawing board, he's taking pictures while hiking, and running from squirrels.

About Fred Berman

Fred Berman is a five-time winner of the AudioFile Earphone Award for Audiobook Narration and the recipient of the 2013 Audie Award for narration in Spy the Lie. He has read a number of audiobooks for young listeners, including Judy Blume’s Soupy Saturdays with The Pain & The Great One and Andrew Clements’s The Last Holiday Concert. He has also narrated the audiobooks for Robert Kirkman’s popular series, The Walking Dead.Berman is an accomplished actor of both the stage and screen as well, performing on Broadway as Timon in The Lion King and off-Broadway in Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and King Lear. On television, Berman has had roles on NBC’s hit series Smash as well as All My Children and Law and Order. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lois

This audiobook was made available for me to listen to and review by Richard Ho, Macmillan Audio, and NetGalley. This is a lovely audiobook rendition of a picture book for younger children. This is a story about an unnamed child in a unnamed city who is heading out to do the shopping at a local neighb......more

Goodreads review by Julie

An audiobook of a picture book seems counter intuitive. But Richard Ho's "A Taste of Home" is actually a thoughtful carefully worded short story that explores the meaning of home. When a young boy leaves to go to the neighborhood market, his mother yells to be sure to bring back "a taste of Home." H......more

Goodreads review by Amy

A Taste Of Home, written by Richard Ho, begins with a little boy, a child of the city, leaving his house, and being told to bring back A Taste Of Home. At first he is not sure what this might mean, since he has always lived here. But his mother hasn’t, she grew up in a different land. His mother, an......more

Quotes

"This evocative tour of New York City's Lower East Side celebrates the neighborhood’s immigrant cultures." -- Kirkus Reviews

"This is a highly effective tool for encouraging children to look into the rich diversity in their communities and realize the many ways immigration adds to the American experience for all who live here." -- School Library Journal

"A fresh pop of flavor." -- Booklist

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