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The Runaway Wok book cover

The Runaway Wok: A Chinese New Year Tale by Ying Chang Compestine, illustrated by Sebastià Serra

On Chinese New Year's Eve, a poor man sends his son to market to trade their last few eggs for a bag of rice, but instead he brings home an empty cooking wok. But that wok turns out to be magic and it changes their fortunes forever.