What your child reads sets the path for their own self-worth as well as how they see others. Grace Lin is a children’s book author/illustrator whose book, “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon,” received the Newbery Book Honor. She shows how the books that are not on your child’s bookshelf are just as important as those that are.
Grace Lin is a Newbery award winning author and illustrator of books for children and teens. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon was a NY Times Bestseller and a Newbery Honor Book. Ling & Ting, was honored with the Theodor Geisel Honor. Grace’s books typically focus on the Asian-American experience.
She believes, “Books erase bias, they make the uncommon every day, and the mundane exotic. A book makes all cultures universal.”
Grace Lin’s newest novel When the Sea Turned to Silver, a sequel to her award winning bestseller, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, is coming out in October 2016. We can’t wait!!
Grace Lin’s Work
- The Ugly Vegetables, Charlesbridge (Watertown, MA), 1999. ISBN 978-0-88106-336-3
- Dim Sum for Everyone!, Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY), 2001. ISBN 978-0-375-91082-1
- Kite Flying, Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY), 2002. ISBN 978-0-375-81520-1
- Okie-dokie, Artichokie!, Viking (New York, NY), 2003.
- Olvina Flies, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2003. ISBN 978-0-8050-6711-8
- Robert’s Snow, Penguin (New York, NY), 2004.
- Jingle Bells, Little, Brown (New York, NY), 2004.
- Fortune Cookie Fortunes, Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY), 2004.
- Deck the Halls, Little, Brown (New York, NY), 2004.
- The Twelve Days of Christmas, Little, Brown (New York, NY), 2004.
- Merry Christmas! Let’s All Sing!, Little, Brown (New York, NY), 2005.
- Our Seasons, Charlesbridge (Watertown, MA), 2006. ISBN 978-1-57091-360-0
- Olvina Swims, Macmillan, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8050-7661-5
- The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale, Albert Whitman and Company, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8075-6922-1
- Bringing in the New Year, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008, ISBN 978-0-375-83745-6
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2009, ISBN 978-0-316-03863-8
- Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same!, Little, Brown (New York, NY), 2010.
- Starry River of the Sky (companion novel to Where the Mountain Meets the Moon), 2012.
- Ling & Ting Share a Birthday, Little, Brown (New York, NY), 2013.
Year of the Animal series
- The Year of the Dog, Little, Brown (New York, NY), 2006.
- The Year of the Rat, Little, Brown (New York, NY), 2007, ISBN 978-0-316-02928-5
- Dumpling Days, 2012