Join us as we honor the release of award winning author Grace Lin’s latest children's picture book, Once Upon A Book. Lin, a prolific writer of children’s picture books and middle grade fiction, will read and sign books.
About the Book: Once Upon A Book
From Caldecott and Newbery Honoree, Grace Lin, and bestselling author Kate Messner comes a modern folktale about the joy of reading.
Once upon a time, there was a girl.
She went to a place alive with colors, where even the morning dew was warm
Alice loves to imagine herself in the magical pages of her favorite book. So when it flaps its pages and invites her in, she is swept away to a world of wonder and adventure, riding camels in the desert, swimming under the sea with colorful fish, floating in outer space, and more!
But when her imaginative journey comes to an end, she yearns for the place she loves best of all.
Paired with vibrant illustrations, this lyrical, expressive story invites the reader to savor each page and indulge in the power of imagination.
About the Author: Grace Lin
Before Grace Lin was an award-winning and NY Times bestselling author/illustrator of picturebooks, early readers and middle grade novels, she was the only Asian girl (except for her sisters) going to her elementary school in Upstate NY. That experience, good and bad, has influenced her books—including her Newbery Honor, Where The Mountain Meets the Moon, her Geisel Honor, Ling & Ting, her National Book Finalist, When the Sea Turned to Sliver, and her Caldecott Honor, A Big Mooncake for a Little Star. But, it also causes Grace to persevere for diversity as an occasional New England Public Radio commentator and when she gave her TEDx talk “The Windows and Mirrors of Your Child’s Bookshelf,” as well as her PBSNewHour video essay “What to do when you realize classic books from your childhood are racist?.” She continued this mission with a hundred episodes of the podcast kidlitwomen* and now currently hosts two other podcasts: Book Friends Forever and Kids Ask Authors.
In 2016, Grace’s art was displayed at the White House and Grace, herself, was recognized by President Obama’s office as a Champion of Change for Asian American and Pacific Islander Art and Storytelling. In 2022, Grace was awarded the Children’s Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association.
Grace is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with her husband, daughter and five chickens.
In person at Brewster Book Store.