Grace Lin's book launch for Thanking the Moon~ September 19th, New York City, USA

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Grace Lin Thanking the Moon

It’s an exciting week for author Grace Lin and all her fans! She will be launching her book Thanking the Moon at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)’s Mid-Autumn Moon Family Festival this coming Saturday.

Here are the details:

Mooncakes, lanterns and the Jade Rabbit in the moon! Join MOCA for a day-long series of activities in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (中秋节), including storytellings, drop-in arts and crafts activities, gallery tours and lantern making workshops with special readings by Asian American children’s book authors Grace Lin and  Lenore Look.

WHEN: September 19th, 12pm reading and signing (other activities will be going on all day from 10-5)

WHERE: Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, USA 10013

To celebrate Thanking the Moon, Grace will be writing a little series of Moon Festival posts on her blog all week. Make sure you drop in everyday–you won’t want to miss it!

Cybils finalists announced…

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

If you haven’t already found your way to the Cybils shortlists, then head on over there and check them out.

The panelists had a huge number of books to read this year – word is definitely getting round! – and now the judges have some tough choices to make.

I’m delighted to see that Wabi Sabi by Mark Reibstein and Ed Young made it through to the finals – now we’ll just have to wait and see!

Meanwhile, there are lots of books there that we haven’t read yet, and several are going straight on to our books-waiting-to-be-read lists – such as Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa by Jeanette Winter (non-fiction picture-books); and Alvin Ho by Lenore Look and The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (both in the Middle Grade Fiction category).

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Happy reading, everyone – especially if you’re a Cybils judge!