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AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
A young Jewish girl named Zhen Yu living in Kaifeng went to the the market with her father. Zhen Yu got lost while looking at Jade. Her father meets a fortune-teller who helps him find his daughter but tells him that she will be bitten by a poisonous snake and die on her wedding day. Zhen Yu grows up to be a lovely kind woman. On the day of her wedding, the fortune-teller knocks on her door. Will the sad prophecy come to pass?
I mostly enjoyed the retelling of this mythical story. The illustrations were beautiful. There was a flaw in the text as he tells her to put down the snake pin in the market, yet she has it and uses it when she is a woman about to get married.
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