Belle Yang | Belle Yang
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.23.2009
You can build some pretty intense friendships in Redroom--across a continent and a body of water. Gina and Ryoma Collia-Suzuki and I have shared our treasures, our dreams, our fears I introduce to them--and to you--my childhood and the lay of the land.
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In the first five years of...
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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.06.2009
Do you remember, when you were a kid, what it was like to walk through the cafeteria with your lunch tray or walk down the aisle of the bus, and kids are putting coats and backpacks across the empty seats so you can’t sit down? Remember that feeling?
Or, say, you’re walking down the hallway at...
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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.04.2009
Belle Yang is an author and painter whose honest words and vibrant illustrations tell stories about her Chinese history, the plight of immigrants in America, and the complex relationships between those we love.
Join our conversation as we talk about art, repression, writing for children, and the...
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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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