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What is the Moon Festival?

Thanking the Moon is a book that celebrates the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. While not as well known in the United States as the Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year), the Moon Festival is an very important holiday in many Asian countries. The Moon Festival is rather like an Asian Thanksgiving.

To help understand the holiday, today's post is a little Q & A about the Moon Festival. I hope this helps you plan a Moon Festival celebration of your own!

Q: When is the Moon Festival celebrated?

A: Just like L...

on my desk monday

It's a book!
Thanking the Moon: Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is here!! This is a companion book to my Lunar New Year book, Bringing in the New Year so I hope people enjoy it! This is also the book where I painted the likenesses of my long-ago contest (using their photos).

The Moon Festival is one of the most important holidays of the year. While Bringing in the New Year focuses on the exuberance of the Lunar New Year, Thanking the Moon is about the harmony and peace of the Mid-A...

Sunday Paper!

I just recently began a weekend subscription for the NY Times and since then my books have been mentioned in it, not just once, but twice! Yes, Thanking the Moon was mentioned in today's paper! Yay! I'm planning a string of posts to celebrate its release this week, so this was a great way to start!

Also notice my friend Barbara O'Connor's book The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester is also mentioned. I wonder if she just got a subscription, too?



In honor of my new book Thanking the Moon...

fortune cookie friday

"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people."
-Chinese Proverb

upcoming intimidation

On September 26th, I'll be one of the four authors honored at the Literary Lights for Children Tea Party. And I mean it when I say honored. Because the other authors are:

Eeks! All I can think is they needed to include a cheap local to the party which is how I'm in there. I'm a tad bit intimidated. Okay, make that very intimidated. Ugh.

I hope this means I'll at least be able to get my Coraline book autographed, right?

Minipage Me!

Last week, I was featured in the MiniPage! The MiniPage are the Sunday newspaper supplement for kids, inserted with the colored comics (oh, how I loved those!). I think my younger readers were more impressed with this than seeing Ling & Ting in the NYTimes.

Wasn't in your paper? It wasn't in mine either, but you can download the MiniPage issue HERE!

book talk tuesday

THE BOY WHO CLIMBED INTO THE MOON, by David Almond

IndieBound Description:
There are some strange ideas floating around in Paul's apartment block. There's Mabel, who now calls herself Molly and whose brother hides under a paper bag. Then there's Clarence, the poodle who thinks he can fly. But the strangest notion of all is Paul's. You see, Paul believes that the moon is not the moon but a great hole in the sky. And he knows that sausages are better than war. How on earth (or not) will he find o...

on my desk monday

My first brush painting! I'm taking Chinese brush painting class as part of my research for "Dumpling Days."

fortune cookie friday

"A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all."
-Chinese Proverb

Come to the Mid-Autumn Moon Family Festival!

Mark your calendars! I'm launching my book, Thanking the Moon:Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival at the Mid-Autumn Moon Family Festival at the Museum of Chinese in America!!

Description:

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...