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Carol Antoinette Peacock
Dr. Carol Antoinette Peacock earned her BA from Cornell University,
her Masters in Social Work from Columbia University and her Ph.D.
from Boston College. She is a psychologist with a specialty in family
and adoption issues. Besides Mommy Far, Mommy Near she has
written Hand Me Down Dreams (Schocken, 1998), which described
her intensive work with adolescent girls from welfare families.
Her book describes how these young women were able to break the
generational cycle of poverty Dr. Peacock also co-authored Sugar
Was My Best Food: Diabetes and Me (Whitman, 1998) a psychological
book helping children first diagnosed with diabetes. Click
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Author
Ching Yeung Russell
Author Ching
Yeung Russell has a lot in common with Ying, the young narrator
of Moon Festival, a picture book set in southern China of
the late 1940s. Moon Festival details the colorful ancient customs
associated with the mid-autumn festival, which celebrates the reunion
of family .Click
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Author
Janet S. Wong
Her
first book, Good Luck Gold and Other Poems, is a collection
of forty-two poems that reflect her experience growing up as a multicultural
Asian-American child. Her second book, A Suitcase of Seaweed
and Other Poems, is a collection of poems and prose pieces divided
into 3 sections: Korean poems, Chinese poems and American poems.
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Author
Laurence Yep
Laurence
Yep was born in 1948 and has been writing since he was 18 years
old. His first short story, published by a science fiction magazine,
earned him a penny a word. Today, he's known as the premier Asian
American writer, and his books have earned many awards, including
two Newbery Honors: Dragonwings in 1976 and Dragon's Gate
in 1994. The Dragon Prince: A Chinese Beauty & the Beast Tale
is Laurence Yep's newest picture book illustrated by Kam Mak. It
is another example of his wonderful way of retelling Chinese folklore
in a new and exciting manner, and is an extension of his exploration
of the "common human thread" that exists among all the various cultures
in the United States.
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