I ran across this author when working with ESL students at the library and watching them be fascinated by a children's book on the Prophet Mohammed by this author. That book was checked out, but I realized this author has written a lot of children's books about other cultures, mostly from the Middle-East and southern Asia. Though she lives in the state of Washington, she lived in India for two years and fell in love with Indian art, which she captures beautifully in this richly illustrated book, even with gold.
This book is about India and a raja who gathered rice from all his peasants for times of famine, but when famine came, he did not redistribute the rice. A young girl does him a favor and he promises her anything. She ask for just one grain of rice. When pressured, she asks for one grain today, and each day for thirty days double the rice he gave the day before. You do the math.
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