Suitabook
Festival Food: Aalum
Yangjee Thokar
Credits & Licence
Originally published by The Asia Foundation - Let’s Read.
Brought to you by Let’s Read is a program of The Asia Foundation that supports early reading skills and habits to develop our next generation of critical thinkers and creative innovators in Asia and the Pacific. To read more books like this and get further information about this book, visit: letsreadasia.org. 16 Original Story Festival Food: Aalum. Author: Yangjee Thokar. Illustrator: अनमारी तामाङ. Contributor: Sushma Maharjan, Kumudini Gurung Shrestha, Srijanalaya. Published by The Asia Foundation - Let’s Read, © The Asia Foundation - Let’s Read. Released under CC-BY-4.0. This work is a modified version of the original story. © The Asia Foundation, 2022. Some rights reserved. Released under CC-BY-4.0. For full terms of use and attribution, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Contributing translators: Vaidehi Shrestha and Rajendra Maharjan
author: Yangjee Thokar. illustrator: अनमारी तामाङ. translator: Vaidehi Shrestha, Rajendra Maharjan. publisher: The Asia Foundation - Let’s Read. contributor: Sushma Maharjan, Kumudini Gurung Shrestha, Srijanalaya.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; story unchanged. Suitabook’s guidance is a separate analysis.
Original Book on Let’s Read: Festival Food: Aalum (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Read the cooking sequence at an unhurried pace and invite the child to follow the pictures. Use the glossary for unfamiliar terms, and briefly discuss keeping clear of hot cooking equipment.
- Themes
- Festival food and family tradition: Yangjee’s family prepares aalum for Maghe Sankranti, and the story ends with a shared meal. The glossary identifies the festival and describes several foods. The story presents a particular festival meal through everyday family activity and gives brief cultural context for its terms.
- Worth knowing
- There is a brief kitchen accident: Yangjee burns her hand after approaching the hot cooking area. Her mother responds and warns her away; the scene may be worth noting for a child sensitive to minor injury.