![]() ![]() ![]() Starving, he fled to South Korea in search of a better life. ![]() Appa grew up in North Korea, where he did not have enough food to eat. Yoori lives in South Korea and doesn’t know what North Korea is like, but her father (Appa) does. Rice from Heaven is a true story about compassion and bravery as a young girl and her community in South Korea help deliver rice via balloons to the starving and oppressed people in North Korea. Beyond that wall and across the sea live children just like me, except they do not have food to eat.” We reach a place where mountains become a wall. “Out in the countryside, across a bridge, to an island blanketed with rice fields, Appa and I ride. Themes/topics: North Korea, humanitarian aid, hunger Title: Rice from Heaven: The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans Today, as part of Perfect Picture Book Friday, here’s more about this important book. Earlier, author Tina Cho shared how she turned her real life experience into a picture book. ![]()
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