Literary Birthday – 17 May – Grace Lin

Happy Birthday, Grace Lin, born on 17 May 1974.

Grace Lin Quotes

1. Your imagination will create many friends.
2. The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren’t ready for novels yet but are done with my picture books. It’s really rewarding to think that they can grow up reading my books at all the different levels.
3. Stories are not a waste of time.
4. Being an author and an illustrator comes with great challenges as well as rewards. The entire book becomes your vision, which is wonderful but also difficult as the complete responsibility of how it is received is placed on your shoulders.
5. If you make happy those that are near, those that are far will come.

Grace Lin is an an award-winning and NY Times bestselling American author or of picture books, early readers, and middle grade novels. Her books include Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, The Year of the Dog, Dumpling Days, The Ugly Vegetables, and Dim Sum for Everyone! She is a Newbery, Geisel, and Caldecott honoree, known for contributing to and advocating for Asian American representation and diversity in children’s literature. In 2022, Grace was awarded the Children’s Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association. Her latest book is The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon. Follow her on Instagram.

Source for image: Author’s press page

by Amanda Patterson

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