This is photo of a Dragon Wing Begonia.
A little play on words to go with the
book title, "Dragonwings."

(Quote from book summary)
Imagine moving across the world
to live with a father you've never met.
Laurence Yep's ''Dragonwings'' is the story
of a young Chinese boy who travels
to the United States to meet his father
for the first time, exploring themes of race,
family, and fear.

Dragonwings Themes
Moon Shadow Lee is the young boy in
Laurence Yep's book Dragonwings.
Yep tells us that Moon Shadow
lives with his mother in China in 1903,
while his father, Windrider, lives in America.
Windrider left before Moon Shadow was
old enough to remember him, and now
Moon Shadow is being sent to live with
his father and explore life in San Francisco,
California. Over the course of the book
he discovers the difficulty of
learning a new language,
encounters some mean neighborhood boys,
and develops a relationship with his father...