The Many Meanings of Meilan Q&A with Andrea Wang

It’s Andrea Wang’s world and we’re just living in it.

It would be enough for most authors to have a picture book like WATERCRESS out in 2021. I mean, talk about an award contender. You’ve got Jason Chin’s art. A heartfelt story that doesn’t tug the heartstrings so much as it plays them like a cantina band. And then there are the rave (professional) reviews. So how nutty is it that this isn’t her only book out this year?

THE MANY MEANINGS OF MEILAN is the kind of middle grade novel unafraid...