Chyng Feng Sun, Ph.D., is an award-winning Taiwanese children's book author, journalist, professor, writer, and documentary filmmaker.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1959, she has since moved to the United States. She attended Syracuse University and University of Massachusetts Amherst for her Ph.D.
She was previously a journalist at the children’s edition of Min Sheng Daily in Taiwan, and an editor of children’s books. She has published almost forty books for children: poetry, fairy tales, picture books, in English or Chinese, and has won the China Times Literary Prize for children’s story books, the Hsin-Yi Children’s Literature Award, and the Golden Tripod Award, and other important children’s literature awards in Taiwan.
She is now Clinical Professor of Media Studies, Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies, NYU School of Professional Studies. Her teaching and research are centered on popular media representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and their cultural and social impacts.
Dr. Sun is also a documentary filmmaker and has produced and directed (with Miguel Picker) five documentary films.
Excellent book choice for developing readers. It contains a lot of the sight words that children will need to know. I would use this with those students who are having a hard time identifying sight words in class. Teachers can send it home with the child so that his/her parent can read it with the child on a daily basis to increase memory of sight words.