"Molly and Michael will steal your heart! A must read." -- 5 stars from Readers' Favorite Molly and her younger brother Michael are curious about the world. Inspired by food, family, and friends, they use a magic suitcase to explore faraway places. Molly and Michael travel to Shanghai, China in their ninth adventure. They meet a new friend, Nan Nan, who shows them the modern wonders and ancient secrets of the city. There is much to discover, including new games, foods, beautiful places and language! Learn, along with Molly and Michael, what makes Shanghai and its people unique and wonderful. (This) is a fun and educationalbook for children. Molly and her brother Michael are curious aboutShanghai, China. They decide to travel there with their magic suitcase.There they meet a new friend named Nan Nan, who shows them around andteaches them about Shanghai. Molly and the Magic Suitcase: Molly Goes to Shanghai may be a book forchildren, but it taught me a lot about Shanghai. Oler has filled thisstory with interesting facts, such as the maglev train in Shanghai being able to go 268 miles per hour and it does not touch the ground. I also liked that Oler told the reader how to pronounce words in Chinese. Thecolorful illustrations show what Shanghai really looks like. I reallyliked the special details that the buildings had in the pictures. I read this book with my four-year-old. She did need help with some of thewords, but she really enjoyed the story. She now begs to ride the maglev train. I like that Oler touched on a little bit of everything inShanghai. I was happy to find out that this is the 9th book in the Molly and theMagic Suitcase series. This is a very fun and educational series that Iwould be happy for my child to read. This series teaches them differentthings about faraway places. I highly recommend this series. --Jessyca Garcia, Readers' Favorite Amy Houston Oler is a trained artist who has loved drawing all her life, rarely going anywhere without a sketch pad. She created her first comic strip at age ten and continued creating comics and cartoons in high school and college, graduating from DePauw University with a double major in both History and Studio Art (focus on drawing and painting). She later studied at the New York School of Visual Arts. During her time in New York, she worked for Marvel Comics, The New Yorker, and Entertainment Weekly. Amy produces all of the art for the Molly and the Magic Suitcase series by hand. She loves drawing from both imagination and reality, but her favorite thing to capture is facial expression. Her father says he recognizes her characters easily because she's been working on them all her life. Amy is currently the Creative Director at COLOR Marketing & Design. Chris Oler began a freelance writing career through sports, specifically the corporate softball team he put together in Chicago. His game reports entertained well enough that he was soon writing for other divisions of the company. His background includes speechwriting for the Indiana House of Representatives, serving as an editor for Kaplan in Chicago, and teaching and coaching students from grade 5 to grade 12 at the International School of Indiana and Park Tudor School in Indianapolis. Chris is currently the President and Lead Writer of COLOR Marketing & Design.