Grace Lin: Press Kit

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Author Photos (please credit photos to Alexandre Ferron:

Book Covers:
The Lin Family Picturebooks:

Grace's Novels:

Grace's most popular books:

AUTHOR BIOS:
the long version (copy & paste):
Grace Lin grew up in Upstate New York with her parents and two sisters. While the other sisters became scientists, Grace became an artist. Surprisingly enough, being an artist was not Grace's first choice. She first dreamed of being a champion ice skater, and drew many pictures of herself twirling and dancing on the ice. Unfortunately, Grace had neither the talent nor coordination to make it to skating stardom. However, the pictures she drew of herself held much promise and quickly became Grace's career focus.

After attending the Rhode Island School of Design, Grace quickly set out to achieve her dream of creating children's books. Her first book, THE UGLY VEGETABLES, was published in 1999 and was quickly heralded. As well as being an American Booksellers Association's "Pick of the List" and a Bank's Street College Best Books of the Year, THE UGLY VEGETABLES was nominated for the California Young Reader Children's Choice Award and named a Growing Good Kids Book Award CLASSIC.

Grace followed that success with the publication of over a dozen more books, including DIM SUM FOR EVERYONE!, FORTUNE COOKIE FORTUNES, and OLVINA FLIES. Grace's first children's novel, THE YEAR OF THE DOG was released to glowing praise in 2006 and nominated to the TX Bluebonnet list, which she followed with THE YEAR OF THE RAT. Her most recent novel WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON has garnered 3 starred reviews and was the 2009 Parents' Choice Gold Winner.

Grace lives in Somerville, MA. Please visit her website: www.gracelin.com for more info!

the short and serious version (copy & paste):
Grace Lin is the author and illustrator of more than a dozen picture books, including THE UGLY VEGETABLES and DIM SUM FOR EVERYONE! Also an author of middle grade fiction, Grace's most recent novel WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON was released with glowing praise garnering 3 starred reviews and was the 2009 Parents' Choice Gold Winner. While most of Grace's books are about the Asian-American experience, she believes, "Books erase bias, they make the uncommon everyday, and the mundane exotic. A book makes all cultures universal." See more about Grace and her work at www.gracelin.com.

OTHER MATERIALS:
Essays by Grace- These are downloadable PDFs.
• Why Couldn't Snow White be Chinese?--Finding Identity Through Children's Books
• Don't Judge a Book by its Character (even if it is Chinese): Why I Wrote the Year of The Dog
• The Extra Adjective: How I Came to Terms With Being a Multicultural Author

Grace on Television
• on NBC's Today Show for "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon"(Al Roker's Dec. 2009 Book Club Pick) youtube link
• on NBC's Today Show for "Robert's Snow for Cancer's Cure" (charity art snowflakes with Robert, 2004) quicktime movie-5 MB

Interviews of Grace
• in the School and Library Journal
• in the Boston Globe
• interview in BookPage
• interview in Jama Rattigan's Alphabet Soup Blog
• interview at the Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast Blog
• interview in the April 2007's Edge of the Forest