The Flamingo: An Interview with Guojing About Her Latest, Loveliest Creation

In the year 2015 I was leaving my longstanding job at New York Public Library to move halfway across the country to take on an entirely new life. It was a turbulent year for me, particularly as I’d felt so tuned into the children’s book world in NYC. How on earth was I going to keep up with everything, particularly when my new job had only a tangential connection to children’s books as a whole?

Guojing, photo credit Raju Chowdhury

In a year of uncertainty, there were still new books for k...