Bridge of Flowers by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha


Bridge of Flowers
Title : Bridge of Flowers
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ISBN : 1775084094
ISBN-10 : 9781775084099
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 28
Publication : Published January 1, 2019

There are many ways for a family to be: spread out, packed together, close or far or always moving. This family lives in two houses connected by a bridge of flowers. When the bridge falls apart one stressful day, Mona and her sibling Kumar make magic to restore it -- with a surprising result! It's a good thing that everyone has a little magic inside, especially when they're trying to care for the people they love.

Bridge of Flowers Reviews

  • Elizabeth

    This was the first of the 6 of the
    2019: Discovery! set of Flamingo Rampant books that I read, and it's delightful and also a great exemplar of this 2019 series.  I feel like this set is a lot more intentionally diverse than previous ones (especially in terms of having multiple axes of diversity represented in a single book) and also continues to lean in to having the majority of their books not be About The Difference Of Queerness.

    Anyway, in this book, our unnamed child narrator introduces us to their Mom (Soraya, a light-skinned witch who also uses a wheelchair) and their Bapa (Kamau, a brown-skinned scientist who uses ... they're not quite crutches, but I don't know the right term), who love each other very much but can't live together -- so they made a bridge to connect their two homes.

    There's so much good stuff about magic and science, and about loving people and also needing space.

    And then, "A couple years ago, the world got extra stressful." And the bridge falls apart.

    And our unnamed narrator and their sibling Kumar try to figure out how to fix it.

  • Catherine Mason

    I didn't like this as much as the previous books I have read from the same publisher because it suited my views less. Some aspects were good. Most of the art was pretty. The story's message was good overall but was a bit abrupt and confusing towards the end, and if it is for me it probably would be for children. I didn't like the woo (making magic potions) aspect as it goes against my evidence based views.