A dash of M.S.G. (Macho Sino Girl) | A dash of M.S.G. (Macho Sino Girl)
Mar.29.2009
When I worked with Paula Wiseman at Harcourt Brace nearly a decade ago, I was surprised by her comment, which I paraphrase: "Your style is different from anyone else's."
Then I heard it again today in a review in a Scholastic's online tool for teachers:
I think frogs must just be...
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Mar.21.2009
Gina and Ryoma Collia-Suzuki live in England and I, in California. We met in Redroom and have visited our homes through photographs. I've seen their beloved porcelain foo dogs and other treasures, placed just so. I've even met their eight sister rats (alas, now down to four). I've flown over...
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Mar.14.2009
Hear Belle Yang read Foo Frog in this Book Trailer on Youtube-ribbit
Book signing at Hauk Fine Arts in Pacific Grove on April 11th, 11 AM to 2 PM.
I bet if I talk tadpoles, your imagination will take you rushing back to your own experiences with anthropomorphic amphibians. If you've never caught...
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Mar.06.2009
I have to do it all over again. Kill my great grandfather. A friend tells me I am the reincarnation of Yang Junchen, who died in the middle of the great famine, unleashed by the Great Leap Forward. I came into the world in 1960 on the Island of Taiwan, where food was scanty, but I did not go...
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Feb.09.2009
Tomorrow, February 10th, is the official launch date of “Foo the Flying Frog of Washtub Pond.” With my previous picture books, I was happy on the pub date but not excited the way I am about "Foo." I like all my books and the characters I’ve created, but I am especially fond of Foo Frog...
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Feb.05.2009
When I was emerging from my illness and started to walk with my dad in the canyon behind our house, my dad whacked to smithereens a beautiful, layered patch of mushrooms growing at the base of a dead pine. I was so mad, I called him names. (He was contrite, but he said, he didn want Mom to slip on...
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Feb.03.2009
I did it. I accomplished what I suggested Jessica Barksdale do. I deleted the people I do not know, or barely know, from Facebook. Now I have sixty-odd people I do enjoy, old friends, new friends I find sympatico, classmates I've not seen in over 30 years, or writers whose words I've come to...
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Feb.03.2009
Moments ago, I received below forwarded message from Terri Debono, the film maker of the PBS documentary, "My Name is Belle." Contrary to what people think, the filmmakers do not get paid for the broadcasts. They are asked to pay $30,000 to have the films promoted on PBS stations. Our...
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Jan.29.2009
As in prose writing, sequential art of the comic book, you can sail into the doldrums when there is not enough information or you haven't found the best way to tell the story visually.
I was asked to reprise my father's journey on foot out of China in 1949, so that the rest of "Forget Sorrow:...
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Jan.16.2009
My Norton editor gave me a one and-a-half month extension on my graphic novel, so what do I do on a gorgeous day like today?
I went hunting for mushrooms. I am now writing to crow that I've been officially inducted into the ranks of a mushroom hunter, because I've eaten what I've found.
I had...
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